History of Iceland,
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| Author / Creator: | Gjerset, Knut, 1865-1936. |
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| Imprint: | New York, Macmillan Co., 1924. |
| Description: | vi pages, 2 leaves, 482 pages color frontispiece 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1924590 |
Table of Contents:
- Early explorations and discoveries in the Far North
- The colonization of Iceland
- Organization of the Icelandic state and government
- Introduction of Christianity
- Climate and natural conditions in Iceland. Early social life
- Discovery and colonization of Greenland. Discovery of the American continent. The Vinland voyages
- Development of Scaldic song and saga literature
- Civil strife in Iceland. Conditions in the church. Snorri Sturlason
- The Sturlung period of civil war
- Union of Norway and Iceland. Growing ascendancy of the clergy
- Growing influence of the Norwegian government. Great calamities resulting in general distress. Decline of intellectual life and literary art
- English commerce with Iceland. The Icelandic church. Intercourse of the Hanseatic cities with Iceland
- The reformation of Iceland
- Great calamities. The Danish trade monopoly. New literary activity
- Commerce with Iceland during the Napoleonic Wars. The adventurer Jorgen Jorgensen. Improvement of economic conditions after 1814
- Romanticism in Iceland. Struggle for autonomy. The Icelandic Constitution of 1874. Improved economic conditions
- Realism in Icelandic literature. Modern intellectual life in Iceland
- Struggle for independence. Iceland proclaimed a sovereign state. Recent economic development
- Icelandic immigration. The Icelanders in America.