- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anglo-Saxon England
- English History 1066–1272
- English Political History of the Late Middle Ages, 1272–c. 1520
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European History
- Ecclesiastical History
- Economic History
- Legal History
- Byzantine Scholarship: Twelfth-Century Constantinople, Twentieth-Century Britain
- Celtic Studies
- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Slavonic Studies
- Chinese and Japanese Studies
-
Language
- Latin
- Old English
-
Middle English Literature
- German Studies
- Romance Studies 1: Francophone Studies
- Romance Studies 2: Hispanic Literatures
- Romance Studies 3: Dante
- Artefacts, Sites and Landscapes: Archaeology and Medieval Studies
- Numismatics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Cartography
- Medieval Thought
- Musicology
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The Study of Medieval Art I: 1900–50
- The Study of Medieval Art 2: 1950–2000
- Metrics
- The History of the Book
- Epilogue
- Index of Scholars
- Subject Index
Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Chapter:
- (p.262) (p.263) Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Source:
- A Century of British Medieval Studies
- Author(s):
Heather O’Donoghue
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter examines the works of British Old Norse-Icelandic scholars. It explains that from the start, British interest in Old Norse studies was closely bound up with contemporary Old Norse-Icelandic scholarship in Scandinavia and that the British connection was only established after James Johnstone's translation of extracts from the thirteenth-century historical compilation Heimskringla. This chapter also discusses the trend in Old Norse-Icelandic studies in Britain which involved the recognition of sagas as being informative not in their details of event and character, but in their portrayal of society and culture.
Keywords: Old Norse-Icelandic studies, British scholars, Scandinavia, James Johnstone, Heimskringla, sagas, society and culture
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anglo-Saxon England
- English History 1066–1272
- English Political History of the Late Middle Ages, 1272–c. 1520
-
European History
- Ecclesiastical History
- Economic History
- Legal History
- Byzantine Scholarship: Twelfth-Century Constantinople, Twentieth-Century Britain
- Celtic Studies
- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Slavonic Studies
- Chinese and Japanese Studies
-
Language
- Latin
- Old English
-
Middle English Literature
- German Studies
- Romance Studies 1: Francophone Studies
- Romance Studies 2: Hispanic Literatures
- Romance Studies 3: Dante
- Artefacts, Sites and Landscapes: Archaeology and Medieval Studies
- Numismatics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Cartography
- Medieval Thought
- Musicology
-
The Study of Medieval Art I: 1900–50
- The Study of Medieval Art 2: 1950–2000
- Metrics
- The History of the Book
- Epilogue
- Index of Scholars
- Subject Index