Morkinskinna : the earliest Icelandic chronicle of the Norwegian kings (1030-1157) /

Morkinskinna : the earliest Icelandic chronicle of the Norwegian kings (1030-1157) /

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform title:	Morkinskinna. English.
Imprint:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Description:	xiv, 556 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English Icelandic
Series:	Islandica ; v. 51 Islandica 51.
Subject:	Norway -- History -- 1030-1397. Norway. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4221699

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Other authors / contributors:	Andersson, Theodore Murdock, 1934- Gade, Kari Ellen.
ISBN:	080143694X (cloth)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-532) and indexes. Old Norse versions of the stanzas are accompanied by Old Norse prose paraphrases and English translations.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Patrick J. Stevens
The Narrative
The Manuscripts
The Native Sources
The Poetic Corpus of AEMsk and the Question of Interpolation
The Oral Sources
Time and Place of Composition
Toward a Profile of the Author
The Text of Morkinskinna
Textual Notes
Explanatory Notes
Notes on Stanzas
App. A. Concordance of Episodes in Fagrskinna and Heimskringla
App. B. The Latin Compendium of Hakon Ivarsson.