A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture

Notes on Contributors viii
Maps xii
Introduction 1
Rory McTurk
1 Archaeology of Economy and Society 7
Orri Vésteinsson
2 Christian Biography 27
Margaret Cormack
3 Christian Poetry 43
Katrina Attwood
4 Continuity? The Icelandic Sagas in Post-Medieval Times64
Jón Karl Helgason
5 Eddic Poetry 82
Terry Gunnell
6 Family Sagas 101
Vésteinn Ólason
7 Geography and Travel 119
Judith Jesch
8 Historical Background: Iceland 870-1400 136
Helgi Dorláksson
9 Historiography and Pseudo-History 155
Stefanie Würth
10 Language 173
Michael Barnes
11 Late Prose Fiction (lygiso¨gur) 190
Matthew Driscoll
12 Late Secular Poetry 205
Shaun Hughes
13 Laws 223
Gudmund Sandvik and Jón Vidar Sigurdsson
14 Manuscripts and Palaeography 245
Gudvardur Már Gunnlaugsson
15 Metre and Metrics 265
Russell Poole
16 Orality and Literacy in the Sagas of Icelanders 285
Gísli Sigurdsson
17 Pagan Myth and Religion 302
Peter Orton
18 The Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse and Old IcelandicLiterature 320
Andrew Wawn
19 Prose of Christian Instruction 338
Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
20 Rhetoric and Style 354
Dórir Óskarsson
21 Romance (Translated riddarasögur) 372
Jürg Glauser
22 Royal Biography 388
Ármann Jakobsson
23 Runes 403
Patrik Larsson
24 Sagas of Contemporary History (Sturlunga saga): Texts andResearch 427
Úlfar Bragason
25 Sagas of Icelandic Prehistory (fornaldarsögur) 447
Torfi H. Tulinius
26 Short Prose Narrative (dáttr) 462
Elizabeth Ashman Rowe and Joseph Harris
27 Skaldic Poetry 479
Diana Whaley
28 Social Institutions 503
Gunnar Karlsson
29 Women in Old Norse Poetry and Sagas 518
Judy Quinn
Index 536