Series editor: Stefan Brink. Acta Scandinavica is the first targeted series for Scandinavian Studies worldwide. This new
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Scandinavian STUDIES
Old Norse, Viking Studies, Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Saga Studies, Skaldic Poetry, Christianity in the North NEW BOOK SERIES
Acta Scandinavica
Aberdeen Studies in the Scandinavian World
Series editor: Stefan Brink Acta Scandinavica is the first targeted series for Scandinavian Studies worldwide. This new series will focus on Scandinavian language, literature, history and culture in prehistoric, medieval and early modern times. By comparison to other studies, the series is chronologically broad, and will cover a greater breadth of subject and methodology. It will contain both monographs and thematically coherent volumes with essays.
Kirsi Salonen, Kurt Villiads & Torstein Jorgensen (eds.)
Terry Gunnell, Annette Lassen (eds.)
Medieval Christianity in the North
Approaches to Völuspá and Nordic Days of Judgement
The Nordic Apocalypse
New Studies
approx. x + 244 p., 6 col. ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2012, AS 2, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54182-2, approx. € 80 Publication scheduled forWinter 2012
approx x + 312 p., 20 b/w ills., 12 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, 2012, AS 1, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54048-1, approx. € 75 Publication scheduled forWinter 2012
The book investigates from a fresh viewpoint important aspects of Nordic Christianity in the Middle Ages and discusses to what extent ideas and institutions were adapted to local circumstances. It includes a variety of topics, such as the remnants of paganism, medieval saints cults, law, and church, to religious warfare, and the use of beer in cult and memory.
A series of articles on new approaches to the Old Norse poem Völuspá and its possible context within the apocalyptic tradition in Northern Europe in the early medieval period.
IN PREPARATION: Stefan Brink, Lisa A. Collinson (eds.)
New Approaches to Early Law in Scandinavia AS 3, ISBN 978-2-503-54754-4
Ane Bysted, Kurt Villads Jensen, Carsten Selch Jensen, John Lind
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Thomas Småberg (eds.)
Jerusalem in the North:
Friendship and Social Networks in Scandinavia c. 1000-1800
Denmark and the Baltic Crusades, 1100-1522 xiv + 393 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2012, OUTREMER 1, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-52325-5, € 75
For the first time since the mid-nineteenth century, historians have investigated Latin, Danish, German, and Russian source materials about the Danish Crusades in the Baltic region. This team of four Danish medievalists describe how the idea of crusading reached the North and how Scandinavia became involved in the Western European crusading movement.
approx. x + 347 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2012, EER 5, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54248-5, approx. € 85 Publication scheduled forWinter 2012
The articles in this book emphasize the strong correlation between political developments such as the emergence of the state and the evolution of friendships and social networks. They also highlight radical changes in the importance and contexts of friendship that occurred between the Viking Age and the late eighteenth century.
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Sara M. Pons-Sanz
Lilla Kopár
Gods and Settlers
The Iconography of Norse Mythology in Anglo-Scandinavian Sculpture
The Lexical Effects of Anglo-Scandinavian Linguistic Contact on Old English
approx x + 250 p., 30 b/w ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2012, SEM 25, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-52854-0, € 70 Publication scheduled forWinter 2012
x + 550 p., 160 x 240 mm, 2012, SEM 1, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53471-8, approx. € 125 Publication scheduled forWinter 2012
Viking-Age stone sculpture in northern England provides rare visual evidence for the cultural changes that took place in the Scandinavian settlement areas and bears witness to intellectual and social processes that have otherwise left few traces in either the textual or material records.
This book analyses the first Norse terms to be recorded in English. After revising the list of terms recorded in Old English texts which can be considered to be Norse-derived, the author explores their dialectal and chronological distribution, as well as the semantic and stylistic relationship which the Norse-derived terms established with their native equivalents (when they existed).
Pernille Hermann, Jens Peter Schjødt & Rasmus Tranum Kristensen (eds.)
Reflections on Old Norse Myths
Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide
The Viking Age as a Period of Religious Transformation
The Christianization of Norway from AD 560 to 1150/1200 xiv + 176 p., 160 x 240 mm, 2007, VMSS 1, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-52614-0, € 60
When seeking to understand the function of mythology in the pagan past and in medieval Iceland scholars are confronted with the problem of how sources from the Middle Ages can properly be used. The articles in this volume demonstrate diverse angles from which Old Norse mythological texts can be viewed.
Kristel Zilmer & Judith Jesch (eds.)
Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North
vi + 273 p., 39 b/w ills., 15 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, 2012, USML 4, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54294-2, € 80
This collection of nine essays deals with the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe.
Eva Svensson
The Medieval Household: Daily Life in Castles and Farmsteads
Scandinavian Examples in their European Context xvi + 382 p., 73 b/w ills., 17 col. ills., 33 b/w line art, 160 x 240 mm, 2009, TMC 2, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-52590-7, € 65
This book investigates four excavated Swedish sites - the castles of Saxholmen and Edsholm, and the rural settlements of Skramle and Skinnerud - in order to juxtapose the daily life of nobles in their castles and peasants in their rural settlements.
xx + 396 p., 156 x 234 mm, 77 b/w ills., 13 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, 2012, VMSS 2, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53480-0, € 110
For the first time in over thirty years, Dr Nordeide illuminates the change from non-Christian to Christian rituals by analysing archaeological resources from c. AD 560 to c. 1150/1200. This book both asserts and challenges previous hypotheses of the chro nology of Christianization, as well as offering fascinating new versions of the Norway’s eventual conversion.
Lars Boje Mortensen & Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen (eds.)
The Performance of Christian and Pagan Storyworlds Non-Canonical Chapters of the History of Nordic Medieval Literature
approx. 400 p., 20 b/w ills., 6 col. ills., 156 x 234 mm, 2012, MISCS 3, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-54236-2, approx. € 110 Publication scheduled forWinter 2012
The present volume deals with Nordic medieval texts that are overlooked in traditional, language-based narratives and capitalize on the performance turn in cultural studies.
Søren M. Sindbæk and Bjorn Poulsen (eds.)
Settlement and Lordship in Viking and Early Medieval Scandinavia xvii + 377 p., 20 b/w ills., 16 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, 2012, TMC 9, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53131-1, € 95
Within a European frame, this book reviews the Scandinavian sources for the appearance of aristocracy, social differentiation in the archaeology of farms, villages and manors, concepts of landholding, modes of agriculture, the organization of cultural landscape, and the structure and history of social ties.
P. Lendinara, L. Lazzari, C. Di Sciacca (eds.)
Paul S. Barnwell, Brian Roberts (eds.)
New Perspectives in the Study of Late Anglo-Saxon Glossography
The Historical Geography of Glanville R. J. Jones
Rethinking and Recontextualizing Glosses:
Britons, Saxons, and Scandinavians
xx + 564 p., 16 col. ills., 165 x 240 mm, 2012, TEMA 54, PB, ISBN 978-2-503-54253-9, € 60
xix + 477 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2012, TMC 7, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53207-3, € 115
Glossing was a scribal practice in use since antiquity, but it was in the Middle Ages that it acquired a wider meaning and a different role, becoming one of the most widespread forms of literacy in the Germanic West, including the British Isles. The essays are devoted to both Latin and Old English apparatuses of glosses as well as to specific items of the Old Norse and Old Saxon glossarial production.
A selection of the collected papers of the late Professor Glanville Jones which explore ‘early’ medieval estate structures and the evolution of rural settlements in England.
Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages BOOK SERIES Series editor: Margaret Clunies Ross The Norse-Icelandic Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages project aims to produce a new edition of the known corpus of skaldic verse, including runic inscriptions in metrical form. In practice this means editing all poetry supposed to be from earliest times until c. 1400, which does not belong to the collection in the Codex Regius of the Elder Edda and related collections. This is the first edition of the skaldic corpus from first principles since Finnur Jónsson’s Den Norsk-Islandske Skjaldedigtning (1912-15). It is published both in book and electronic form as a critical edition with an English translation, editorial apparatus and notes. It re-examines the manuscript evidence for the poetic texts and their contexts.
Diana Whaley (ed.)
Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas From Mythical Times to c. 1035 approx. ccxv + 1250 p., 160 x 240 mm, 2012, SKALD 1, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-51896-1, approx. € 175 Publication scheduled forWinter 2012
Volumes 1 and 2 in the SKALD series present the large and important body of skaldic poetry preserved in sagas about the kings of Norway and other Scandinavian rulers. This volume is dedicated mainly to court poetry in praise of rulers from the legendary Yngling kings to Óláfr Haraldsson (St. Olav) and Knútr Sveinsson (Cnut the Great). Alongside formal commemoration of raids and battles there are dialogues with valkyries, lively travelogue, accounts of miracles, and freestanding stanzas capturing frustrated love and moments of humour. This volume also contains the General Introduction to the series.
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.)
Poetry on Christian Subjects 2 vols., lxxiv + 1040 p., 160 x 240 mm, 2008, SKALD 7, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-51893, € 140
This volume is devoted to poems of Christian piety, often recorded outside prose contexts, which date from the mid-twelfth to the end of the fourteenth century. “The present volume is a remarkable achievement, and a testimony to the dedication and scholarly rigour of its editors. [...] The printed edition benefits from the useful and well-designed website of the Skaldic Poetry Project.” Erika Sigurdson, in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 41/1
IN PREPARATION:
From c. 1035 to c. 1300
Edith Marold (ed.) Poetry from Treatises on Poetics SKALD 3, ISBN 978-2-503-51894-7
2 vols., cvi + 916 p., 160 x 240 mm, 2009, SKALD 2, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-51897-8, € 140
Guðrún Nordal (ed.) Poetry on Icelandic History SKALD 4, ISBN 978-2-503-51899-2
This volume contains poetry composed during the period c. 1035-1300, from the beginning of the reign of Magnús Óláfsson (d. 1047) to the reign of Magnús Hákonarson (d. 1280). The poetry commemorates events that took place on Scandinavian soil and on the Continent, as well as in England, Ireland, Scotland, the Orkneys, Russia, Africa, and Byzantium.
Guðrún Nordal (ed.) Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders SKALD 5, ISBN 978-2-503-51898-5
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.)
Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas
Edith Marold (ed.) Runic Poetry SKALD 6, ISBN 978-2-503-51895-4 Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) Poetry in fornaldarsögur SKALD 8, ISBN 978-2-503-51900-5 Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade, Edith Marold, Guðrún Nordal and Diana Whaley (eds.) Bibliography and Indices SKALD 9, ISBN 978-2-503-51901-2
Viking and medieval scandinavia
JOURNAL
In launching the annual journal Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, the editors aim to replenish and develop the tradition of journal publication in the field of medieval Scandinavian studies. Our conception of the field is broad, extending chronologically from the Viking Age and the sources of Viking activity to the end of the medieval period, while reaching geographically from Russia to North America. In subject matter we aim to disseminate research in all areas germane to the field. From time to time, round-table discussions and other forms of debate are published. Although the primary language of the journal is English, the research […] will emanate from many countries and from different languages and research environments. We therefore welcome contributions to the journal from all academic quarters. Judy Quinn, Stefan Brink, and John Hines (Founding Editors of VMS), Preface to VMS 1 (2005)
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