BOOKS - Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas (Beyond Medieval Europe)
Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas (Beyond Medieval Europe) - Tatjana N Jackson March 15, 2019 PDF  BOOKS
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Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas (Beyond Medieval Europe)
Author: Tatjana N Jackson
Year: March 15, 2019
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 3.7 MB
Language: English

Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the oecumene in particular. It also examines the unique information of these sources, of which the Russian chronicles were namely, the saga and skaldic poetry data concerning the visits of the four Norwegian kings to Old Rus in the late-tenth and mid-eleventh centuries.

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