Anglo-Saxon England in Icelandic Medieval Texts (Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS))
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: December 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780802038371
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Icelandic; Literary Criticism; European - German; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Anglo-Saxons in literature; Histoire et critique; History and criticism; Littâerature vieux norroise; Old Norse literature
First sentence: Aside from Egils saga, the late thirteenth-century work Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu (The Saga of Gunnlaugr Serpent-Tongue) offers more information about Anglo-Saxon England than any other Icelandic family saga, and thus provides a good starting point in trying to establish what knowledge medieval Icelanders might have had of Old English.