A Land of Fire and Ice; An Overview on Viking Literature and Mythology
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A Land of Fire and Ice; An Overview on Viking Literature and MythologyAutoría
Tutor/Supervisor; Universidad.Departamento
Esteve Ramos, María José; Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis AnglesosFecha de publicación
2014-09-24Editor
Universitat Jaume IResumen
The Norsemen or Vikings came from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the islands
surrounding the Northern Sea) and were mainly known as traders, explorers, soldiers and
settlers. They navigated along the ... [+]
The Norsemen or Vikings came from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the islands
surrounding the Northern Sea) and were mainly known as traders, explorers, soldiers and
settlers. They navigated along the Northern seas and their conquest was extensive until
America, including the British Isles, Ireland, Russia and the north of France. Norsemen were
depicted as savage warriors, in a misconception highly extended from the 18th century
onwards. Although most of the Vikings were illiterate people, they produced a remarkable
corpus of written sources, such as the ones which are carved in rune-stones all over the globe.
It is really common to find texts written by Christian monks describing their invasions, all
battlefield-related, in which these were barbarians. Nevertheless, an extended source of
Scandinavian texts have survived until nowadays, such as the Sagas of the Icelanders, in
which the skaldic poetry, or poetry recited in the court, was finally transcribed from the oral
tradition to a written piece of text. This is just an example of the Viking written legacy,
reported by the Icelander called Snorri Sturlunson, in whose works, the Scandinavian or
Northern mythology play a major role. Other salient works were the Poetic Edda and the
Prose Edda. [-]
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Treball Final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos. Codi: EA0938. Curs acadèmic: 2013/2014
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