Morkinskinna : the earliest Icelandic chronicle of the Norwegian kings (1030-1157) /
"Morkinskinna ("rotten parchment"), the first full-length chronicle of the kings of medieval Norway (1030-1157), forms the basis of the Icelandic chronicle tradition. Based ultimately on an original from ca. 1220, the single defective manuscript was written in Iceland ca. 1275. The pr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Icelandic |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Islandica ;
51. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Patrick J. Stevens
- The Narrative
- The Manuscripts
- The Native Sources
- The Poetic Corpus of AEMsk and the Question of Interpolation
- The Oral Sources
- Time and Place of Composition
- Toward a Profile of the Author
- The Text of Morkinskinna
- Textual Notes
- Explanatory Notes
- Notes on Stanzas
- App. A. Concordance of Episodes in Fagrskinna and Heimskringla
- App. B. The Latin Compendium of Hakon Ivarsson.
