Bibliography II of IV

Scholarship on Medieval Icelandic Culture

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Bjarni F. Einarsson. The Settlement of Iceland, A Critical Approach: Granastaðir and the Ecological Heritage. Íslenska bókmenntafélag, 1995.

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Byock, Jesse L. “Saga Form, Oral Prehistory, and the Icelandic Social Context.” New Literary History, vol. 16, no. 1, Johns Hopkins UP, Oct. 1984, pp. 153–73, doi:10.2307/468780.

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Byock, Jesse L. “Governmental Order in Early Medieval Iceland.” Viator, vol. 17, University of California Press Books Division, Jan. 1986.

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Byock, Jesse L. Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power. U of California P, 1988.

Book

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Dubois, Thomas A. Nordic Religions in the Viking Age. UP of Pennsylvania, 1999.

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Durrenberger, E. Paul. The Dynamics of Medieval Iceland: Political Economy & Literature. U of Iowa P, 1992.

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Griffith, Paddy. The Viking Art of War. Greenhill Books, 1998.

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Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir. Farm Abandonment in Medieval and Post-Medieval Iceland: an Interdisciplinary Study. Oxbow Books, 1992.

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Hastrup, Kirsten. Culture and History in Medieval Iceland: An Anthropological Analysis of Structure and Change. Oxford UP, 1985.

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Hall, Mark. “Viking Age Ironworking: The Evidence from Old Norse Literature.” Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, vol. 79, Jan. 1995, pp. 195–203.

Article

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Jesch, Judith. Women in the Viking Age. Boydell Press, 1991.

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Jochens, Jenny. Old Norse Images of Women. U of Pennsylvania P, 1996.

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Jochens, Jenny. “Old Norse Magic and Gender.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 63, no. 3, U of Illinois P, July 1991, p. 305.

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Jochens, Jenny. Women in Old Norse Society. Cornell UP, 1995.

Book

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Lilja Árnadóttir., and Kiran, Ketil. Church and Art: the Medieval Church in Norway and Iceland. Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, 1997.

Book

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Meijer, Jan. “Corrections in Viking Age Rune-Stone Inscriptions.” Arkiv För Nordisk Filologi, vol. 110, C. W. K. Gleerup, etc., Jan. 1995.

Article

Morris, Katherine. Sorceress or Witch?: the Image of Gender in Medieval Iceland and Northern Europe. UP of America, 1991.

Book

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Overing, Gillian. “A Body in Question: Aging, Community, and Gender in Medieval Iceland.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, Duke UP, NC & IL, Apr. 1999, pp. 211–25.

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Page, Raymond Ian, and David Parsons. Runes and Runic Inscriptions Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes. Boydell Press, 1998.

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Per Bruun. “The Viking Ship.” Journal of Coastal Research, vol. 13, no. 4, 1997, pp. 1282–1289.

Article

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Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad. “The Study of the Christianization of the Nordic Countries: Some Reflections.” Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, vol. 13, The Donner Institute, Jan. 1990, pp. 256–72,

Article

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Stefoff, Rebecca. The Viking Explorers. Chelsea House, 1993.

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Swenson, Karen. Performing Definitions: Two Genres of Insult in Old Norse Literature. 1st ed., Camden House, 1991.

Book

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Vilhjalmur Arnason. “Morality and Social Structure in the Icelandic Sagas.” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 90, no. 2, U of Illinois P, Apr. 1991, pp. 157–74.

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All 173 entries from the original bibliography.

About these bibliographies

The bibliographies and links were begun in 2019 with the support of the Department of Icelandic Language and Literature and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba.

The first is annotated with the major sources each new work draws on. None claims to be comprehensive.

Credits

Editors: Christopher Crocker, Dustin Geeraert, Selina Heidinger Web Design & Technical Editor: Ryan E. Johnson Additional Research: Austin Quagleini With thanks to Migration: The 9th UM / University of Iceland Partnership Conference, From Iceland to the Americas, and The Afterlife of Eddas and Sagas.