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Dámusta Saga
''Damusta saga'' ('the saga of Dámusti', also known as ''Dámusta saga ok Jóns'', ''Saga spekingsins Dámusta i Gricklandi'') is a medieval Icelandic romance saga. It is noted for its inventive engagement with Continental romance-writing traditions. Synopsis Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus: Dámusti is a pious knight at the court of King Katalaktus of Grikkland. When the king's daughter, Gratiana, marries King Jón of Smáland, Dámusti kills Jón out of jealousy. Gratiana becomes fatally ill. The Virgin Mary appears to the repentant Dámusti, tells him to arm himself and ride to the church where Gratiana lies buried. There Dámusti defeats the giant Alheimr who reveals that he had induced Gratiana's apparent death in order to marry her himself. Alheimr gives Dámusti a potion which will revive Gratiana. Katalaktus forgives Damusti and the knight marries Gratiana. When their son is old enough to rule, Damusti and Gratiana turn to the spiritual life and become hermit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Saga
The ''riddarasögur'' (literally 'sagas of knights', also known in English as 'chivalric sagas', 'romance-sagas', 'knights' sagas', 'sagas of chivalry') are Norse prose sagas of the romance genre. Starting in the thirteenth century with Norse translations of French '' chansons de geste'' and Latin romances and histories, the genre expanded in Iceland to indigenous creations in a similar style. While the ''riddarasögur'' were widely read in Iceland for many centuries they have traditionally been regarded as popular literature inferior in artistic quality to the Icelanders' sagas and other indigenous genres. Receiving little attention from scholars of Old Norse literature, many remain untranslated. The production of chivalric sagas in Scandinavia was focused on Norway in the thirteenth century and then Iceland in the fourteenth. Vernacular Danish and Swedish romances came to prominence rather later and were generally in verse; the most famous of these are the Eufemiavisorna, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnamagnæan Institute
The Arnamagnæan Institute ( da, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, formerly ''Det Arnamagnæanske Institut'') is a teaching and research institute established in 1956 to further the study of the manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, the collection bequeathed by the Icelandic scholar and antiquarian Árni Magnússon to the University of Copenhagen in 1730. History and function On 1 July 2003 the Arnamagnæan Institute joined with the institutes for Danish dialectology ( da, Institut for Dialektforskning) and onomastics ( da, Institut for Navneforskning) to form The Department of Scandinavian Research ( da, Nordisk Forskningsinstitut), part of the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Humanities. In September 2017, the Department of Scandinavian Research was merged with the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics ( da, Institut for Nordiske Studier og Sprogvidenskab). ''The Arnamagnæan Commission'' ( da, Den Arnamagnæanske Kommission), created in 1772, is the admi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skálholtsbók
Reykjavík, AM 557 4to, known as Skálholtsbók (, the Book of Skálholt), is an Icelandic saga-manuscript. It is now fragmentary: three gatherings of eight leaves and twenty individual leaves have been lost, leaving only 48 leaves. Nevertheless, it contains, in whole or in part, '' Valdimars saga'', '' Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu'', '' Hallfreðar saga vandræðaskálds'', '' Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar'', '' Eiríks saga rauða'' (complete), '' Rögnvalds þáttur og Rauðs'' (complete), '' Dámusta saga'', '' Hróa þáttur heimska'', '' Eiríks saga víðförla'', '' Stúfs saga'' (complete), '' Karls þáttur vesæla'' (complete) and '' Sveinka þáttur''. It seems likely to have been written by Ólafur Loftsson (d. c. 1458), the son of Loftur ríki Guttormsson, in the north of Iceland, around 1420.This entry is based on information from the exhibition catalogue The Rhythmic Office of St Þorlákur and Other Medieval Manuscripts from the See of Skálholt'' published in 1998 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
