Riddarasögur: Icelandic Chivalric sagas / 1st Edition, 1954, 6 Vol.

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Original title:
Riddarasögur
Title in English:
Sagas of knights
(also known in English as
'Chivalric sagas'
,
'Romance-sagas'
,
'Knights' sagas'
,
'Sagas of chivalry'
)
Description:
The books are the best known of collection of Old Norse prose sagas of the romance genre. Riddarasögur are Old Norse vernacular prose stories in style of French chansons de geste and Latin romances and histories. Inspired by translated Continental romances, Icelanders began enthusiastically composing their own romance-sagas, apparently around the thirteenth through the earlier fourteenth centuries.
The rise of the genre has been associated with Iceland coming under Norwegian rule in the 1260s, and the consequent need for Icelandic ecclesiastical and secular elites to explore Icelanders' new identities as vassals to a king. These new political formations particularly affected the marriage market for elite Icelanders, making gender politics a central theme of many romances.
Riddarasögur were widely read in Iceland for many centuries and they have traditionally been regarded as popular vernacular literature.
The books contains the following sagas:
I volume (1953, 408 pages)
Saga af Tristram og Ísönd
Möttuls saga
Bevers saga
II volume (
1954, 441 pages
)
Ívens saga
Partalópa saga
Mágus saga jarls (hin meiri)
III volume (
1953, 419 pages
)
Mírmans saga
Sigurðar saga þögla
Konráðs saga
Samsons saga fagra
IV volume (
1951, 330 pages
)
Elis saga og Rósamundu
Flóres saga og Blankiflúr
Parcevals saga
Valvers þáttur
V volume (
1954, 355 pages
)
Clari saga
Flóres saga konungs og sona hans
Ála flekks saga
Rémundar saga keisarasonar
VI volume (
1954, 325 pages
)
Vilmundar saga viðutan
Sigurðar saga fóts
Tristrams saga og Ísoddar
Drauma-Jóns saga
Jarlmanns saga og Hermanns
Sarpidons saga sterka
This publication also includes the foreword, explanatory dictionary and the index of names.
The index of names is a list of headings (names, places and titles) and associated pointers to where all material relating to that headings can be found in published Sagas of knights. The index includes all names, places or titles of the people mentioned in Sagas of knights. The names, places and titles are listed in a single alphabetical sequence and a pointers are volumes and pages numbers. The headings also are includes a very short description of a subject.
Language:
Icelandic
Dimensions:
130 × 185 × 30 mm / 5.1 × 7.3 × 1.2 in
Weight:
480 + 500 + 470+ 400 + 420 + 400 g / 17 + 18 + 17 + 14 + 15 + 14 oz.
All volumes 2670 g / 95 oz
Edition:
The books are 1st edition of Riddarasögur by The Icelandic Sagas Publishing House (Íslendingasagnaútgáfan). Printed in Reykjavik in 1951-1954.
Condition:
Vintage books in very good condition. Hardcover; leather spine and corners of the book. On the spine of a book is gold titling. Edges of pages are painted (white with gray speckles).
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