Medieval History
The BBC will be airing a show examining Iceland?s medieval history this week. The Viking Sagas will first be see on Tuesday, May 10th, and is one of a number of programs being shown this week related to Iceland and its culture.
Click here to read the article from Medievalists.net
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A two-week summer course has been announced by Háskólasetur Vestfjarða (University Center of the Westfjords) in Iceland. The course is an intensive introduction to the sagas and medieval literature of the north, using Gísla saga as the example. Language,...
Medieval History
The Viking Sagas to be aired on BBC 4
The BBC will be airing a show examining Iceland?s medieval history this week. The Viking Sagas will first be see on Tuesday, May 10th, and is one of a number of programs being shown this week related to Iceland and its culture.
Click here to read the article from Medievalists.net
- The Saga-steads Of Iceland: A 21st-century Pilgrimage
We would like to alert you to the adventure-cum-academic-project which is about to be undertaken by one of our Research Fellows, Dr Emily Lethbridge. Her blog can be found at http://sagasteads.blogspot.com/, but we also include an outline of her project...
- Viking Navigation Secrets Explained?
Was it the hammer of the Gods that drove Viking ships to new lands, or the light-polarizing qualities of a crystal called Iceland Spar? Ancient Viking mariners may have been able to navigate the high seas from Norway to North America centuries before...
- Beauty And Brutality: Iceland?s Literary Landscapes
Dr Emily Lethbridge is breathing new life and understanding into the centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) during a unique year-long research trip ? conducted from the back of a decommissoned Land Rover ambulance. The beauty and brutality...
- Did The Scots Visit Iceland? New Research Reveals Island Inhabited 70 Years Before Vikings
New archaeological discoveries show that Iceland was inhabited around AD 800 ? nearly 70 years before the traditional dating of its Viking settlement. One possibility is that these early inhabitants may have been related to Irish monastic communities...
- Summer Course In Iceland On Sagas: History, Culture, Language, And More
A two-week summer course has been announced by Háskólasetur Vestfjarða (University Center of the Westfjords) in Iceland. The course is an intensive introduction to the sagas and medieval literature of the north, using Gísla saga as the example. Language,...