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Magnús
Fjalldal.
Anglo-Saxon
England in Icelandic Medieval Texts.
University
of Toronto Press, Jan 2006.
Toronto
Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS).
200pp.
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Hardback ISBN
0802038379, $60.00/£40.00
Medieval Icelandic authors
wrote a great deal on the subject of England and the English. This new
work by Magnús Fjalldal is the first to provide an overview of
what Icelandic medieval texts have to say about Anglo-Saxon England in
respect to its language, culture, history, and geography.
Some of the texts Fjalldal examines include family sagas, the shorter
þættir, the histories of Norwegian and Danish kings, and
the Icelandic lives of Anglo-Saxon saints. Fjalldal finds that in
response to a hostile Norwegian court and kings, Icelandic authors –
from the early thirteenth century onwards (although they were rather
poorly informed about England before 1066) – created a largely
imaginary country where friendly, generous, although rather ineffective
kings living under constant threat welcomed the assistance of saga
heroes to solve their problems.
The England of Icelandic medieval texts is more of a stage than a
country, and chiefly functions to provide saga heroes with fame abroad.
Since many of these texts are rarely examined outside of Iceland or in
the English language, Fjalldal’s book is important for scholars of both
medieval Norse culture and Anglo-Saxon England.
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