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Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas

By Tatjana N. Jackson

Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the oecumene in particular. It also examines the unique information of these sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware: namely, the saga and skaldic poetry data concerning the visits of the four Norwegian kings to Old Rus in the late-tenth and mid-eleventh centuries.

ARC - Beyond Medieval Europe

March 2019

228 pages, 12 b/w illustrations

Hardback

ISBN 978 16 4189 026 7

e-ISBN 978 16 4189 027 4

€99.00 / £89.00 / $115.00

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