Anglo-Saxon England In Icelandic Medieval Texts.Anglo-Saxon England In Icelandic Medieval Texts Magnus Fjalldal University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, Press 10 St. Mary Street, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4Y 2W8 www.utppublishing.com 0802038379 $60.00 1-800-565-9523 Anglo-Saxon England In Icelandic Medieval Texts is the first scholarly work to give an overview of what Icelandic medieval texts say about Anglo-Saxon England with regard to its language, culture, history, and geography. Among the texts that Professor Magnus Fjalldal (Department of English Noun 1. department of English - the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature English department academic department - a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject , Haskoli Islands, University of Iceland (body, education) University of Iceland - The Home of Fjolnir. Háskóli Íslands. http://rhi.hi.is/. ) scrutinizes are family sagas, shorter paettir, histories of Norwegian and Danish kings, and the Icelandic lives of Anglo-Saxon saints. In response to a hostile Norwegian court and kings, Icelandic authors from the early thirteenth century imagined a largely fictitious version of England, resembling a theater stage more than a nation, in which Scandinavian saga heroes swept in to solve the problems of kindly and generous yet bumbling kings. A heavily researched, invaluable contribution to scholars of medieval literature Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. , Norse culture, and Anglo-Saxon England, with careful scrutinies of texts rarely studied outside of Iceland or in the English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. , recommended for college library and graduate studies shelves. |
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