TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finlay,Alison
AU  - Jóhannesdóttir,Þórdís Edda
TI  - The Saga of the Jómsvikings: A Translation for Students 
T2  - The Northern Medieval World : On the Margins of Europe
SN  - 9781580443135
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Kalamazoo, MI
PB  - Medieval Institute Publications
KW  - Sagas
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Isländersagas
KW  - Skandinavien
KW  - Wikinger
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Icelandic sagas
KW  - Scandinavian history
KW  - Vikings
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; The Saga of the Jómsvikings --; Bibliography --; Index of Persons and Places; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jómsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast and launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. The saga's account of their stringent warrior code, fatalistic adherence to their own reckless vows and declarations of extreme courage as they face execution articulates a remarkable account of what it meant to be a viking. This translation presents the longest and earliest text of the saga, never before published in English, with a full literary and historical introduction to this remarkable work
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514678
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501514678
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501514678/original
ER  -