Kirjahaku

The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval Iceland uses all the available sources--the medieval Icelanders' historical writings, extensive saga literature, and intricate laws--to explore the way Iceland's social order functioned.

Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society--the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict--is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation. This comprehensive study of narrative structure demonstrates that the sagas are complex expressions of medieval social thought.

Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas (the first book in the Viking Language Series) is a new introduction to Old Norse and Icelandic. The beginner has everything in one book: Graded lessons, reading passages, vocabulary, grammar exercises, and pronunciation. A full complement of maps, runic inscriptions and culture sections explore the civilization, legends, and myths of the Vikings. The lessons follow an innovative word frequency strategy, a method that speeds learning. Because the grammar of Modern Icelandic has changed so little from Old Norse, the learner is well on the way to mastering Modern Icelandic.

Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader (the 2nd book in the Viking Language Series) immerses the learner in Old Norse and Icelandic. Readings include a wealth of Old Norse myths, legends, complete Icelandic sagas, poems of the Scandinavian gods, runic inscriptions. There is a large vocabulary and a full reference grammar. Selections from Old Norse and rune texts range from the doom of the gods at the final battle Ragnarok to descriptions of the dwarves gold and the ring that inspired Tolkien s Lord of the Rings, Wagner s Ring Cycle, and a host of modern fantasy."

Altnordisch 1: Die Sprache der Wikinger, Runen und isl ndischen Sagas gliedert sich in f nfzehn inhaltlich aufeinander aufbauende Lektionen bestehend aus altnordischen Textpassagen, Runen, Grammatikbauk sten, bungen, Karten, (mit gratis Online L sungsschl ssel www. vikinglanguage.com). Das Buch enth lt ein vollst ndiges W rterverzeichnis, eine Kurzgrammatik sowie Hinweise zur (rekonstruierten) Aussprache. H rbeispiele zur Aussprache sind als MP-3-Downloads erh ltlich auf amazon.com (unter Viking Language 1 Audio Lessons 1-8, und 9-15 unter "Alle"), auf iTunes und cdbaby.com. Weitere Informationen unter vikinglanguage.com Ausf hrliche Texte zur nordischen Mythologie sowie vollst ndige Sagas, G tter- und Heldenlieder finden sich in Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader. www.vikinglanguage.com