The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

on the other hand between the earliest manuscript versions of each of the sagas, and the later ones, and thus take into account ...

contrasting the forefather or foremother to the main character. In the context of the Viking period it is illuminating to focus ...

the Viking past. The many Christian writers of the sagas regarded the pagan past in a markedly different way, and some went as f ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE ( 3 ) THE HEROIC AND LEGENDARY SAGAS Stephen Mitchell T he heroic and legendary sagas, also known by such v ...

which they are preserved, and that these texts are even found in the inventories of medieval Icelandic churches indicates the au ...

of some larger extra-literary value to the Icelanders? Were they written under the moderate, or even deep, influence of the oral ...

Buchholz, P. ( 1980 ) Vorzeitkunde. Mündliches Erzählen und Überliefern im mittelalterlichen Skandinavien nach dem Zeugnis von F ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VIKING ART David M. Wilson V iking-Age ornament was chiefly rooted in a continuous tradit ...

chunky technique, are ‘gripping-beasts’, (Figure 24. 1 d), which apparently lack sym- metry and coherence. The hips are emphasis ...

European tradition, was anything but native. If any foreign element was introduced, it was immediately absorbed – almost unrecog ...

(Brøgger 1916 ; Myhre 1992 ), its most important diagnostic element is the ribbon plait the ‘ring-chain’ (Figure 24. 3 b) – a s ...

field and the body curves up below (exceptionally above) the mask to a hip at the opposite side of the field. The legs are produ ...

The fact that Borre-style objects are so common in Scandinavia may in part be explained by the fact that this was the last perio ...

derived from the Borre ring-chain. On either side of the midrib is an animal with ribbon-like body, spiral hips, legs which inte ...

object which is itself asymmetrical, the face encloses an asymmetrical plant ornament, the tendrils of which rise to cover the w ...

It was almost certainly the direct inspiration for a group of stones from Skåne, from Tullstorp (Wilson 1995 : fig. 115 ) and Hu ...

and snake on the reverse, are more floridly treated than that on the Vang stone; all have a lip lappet and the snakes have pigta ...

found not far away on a boulder at Näsbyholm, Åker, the Gök stone (Wilson 1995 : fig. 153 ). Sigurðr appears elsewhere on a numb ...

terms during the period of the growth, maximum expansion and fall of the so-called Danish North Sea Empire. The ultimate phase o ...

snake heads and, on some Swedish runestones, the heads of some of the coarser snakes – are seen from above. The decoration of th ...