#medieval iceland

[ask-medieval-norway-and-iceland]

((Omfg your art is so PREETEE)) What about 2021 Iceland strikes you as weird, Ice?

((Thanks dude 👍 very much appreciate it))

M!A: 2/4

#aph iceland #hws iceland #medieval iceland #answered #noonthemoon

[memories-of-ancients]

The Valþjófsstaður door, an intricately carved door from a medieval Icelandic church dating to around 1200 AD

On display at the National Museum of Iceland

#history #antiquities #art #medieval art #middle ages #iceland #icelandic history

[medievalistsnet]

#medieval #history #Norse #Iceland #books

[nickysfacts]

The vikings were the gay raiding family men of Scandinavia!

🇩🇰⚔️🏳️‍🌈

#history #vikings #lgbt #masculinity #scandinavia #medieval history #gay #viking culture #old norse #lgbtq #danish history #sweden #norway #iceland #denmark #gay history #medieval europe #viking age #lgbt history #medieval #viking life #viking history #nickys facts

[finnlongman]

I should stop making fun of Norse sagas and their obsession with absurd amounts of backstory but those posts are always a hit so there's no real incentive to stop 😂

#i know i know it's a family saga and the digressions about driftage rights are important to the contemporary audience etc #have you considered however that i do not care about the driftwood. because i am not a medieval icelander #sorry saga authors

[fjorn-wanders]

Njal's Saga: A Medieval Best-Seller Most People Haven't Heard of

AM 133 fol. 14v (c.1300). Image courtesy of handrit.is If you want to experience a medieval Icelandic ‘family’ saga at peak performance, then this is the saga to read. Of all the sagas recounting the daily life and social settings of the ‘Viking’ world, Njal’s Saga stands out as an epic chronicle fused with both archetypal heroes and tragic social realities. But while the heroes of Njal’s Saga…

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#family sagas #History #iceland #icelandic #manuscript #manuscripts #medieval #middle ages #njal&039;s saga #norse #Old Norse #Resources for Literature #saga #Sagas #sagas of Icelanders #viking #vikings

[bertie-w-wooster]

blorbo from my shows

helgi from my sagas

#helgi the lean #my beloved #landnámabók #icelandic sagas #love helgi because I'm writing an essay about syncretism in medieval scandinavia so he's very useful #ell shouts into the void

[areiacannaid]

Just Gilan and Blaze

#ranger's apprentice #gilan davidson #blaze #fan art #pencil art #gilan ranger's apprentice #since ranger horses' names aren't the most original #tug tugs his halter etc #im guessing blaze has a blaze #ranger horses are smaller like medieval palfreys or icelandic ponies right? #a.c-art

[draugariki]

drafting a fic set in the viking age and it is becoming a struggle to choose a human name for denmark - matthias is anachronistic for the period i'm writing and magnus is also my name, so it feels kinda weird to use, but none of the other more period-authentic names feel like they suit him (:

#hws denmark #hetalia #most tempting option is to name him after a medieval king but that narrows it down to harald or gorm or sveinn or knut #and i'm not huge fans of any of those #ulfr? arngrim? hrafn? #norway is a sigurd and iceland is an egill theyre very easy #but nothing for denmark seems to work nicely #why did i call myself magnus this was terribly short-sighted

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

Hey people who have experience and know things, how stupid would it be to pursue a master's degree in something as up-my-alley but niche as Medieval Icelandic Studies (assuming they even let me and my French BofA B.A. into the program)?

#it's cool as hell but very complicated and possibly even more unemployable than my current degree #unless i go into academia #but maybe this would lead to the a.rchival s.cience job of all time #i have some experience related to this field (a smattering of i.celandic; a bit of medieval lit; some f.olklore & l.ibrary s.cience) #i just don't know if it's worth it in some ways even if it would be very cool #everyone ever says Do Not Do Grad School but. what if. #personal #icelandic

[insidemyfavoritemanuscript]

Episode 13: Maja Bäckvall on the Prose Edda, funky Norse illustrations, and the MCU Thor movies

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 47, Skaldic lists with figures dancing (?) in the margins.

In Episode 13 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot chat with Maja Bäckvall about Uppsala University DG 11, one of four surviving copies of the so-called Prose Edda written by Snorri Sturluson in the 1220s. The Uppsala copy was made in Iceland in the first quarter of the 14th century. We talk about what exactly the Prose Edda is, how this copy differs from the others, we look at the illustrations, and we also make Maja talk about THOR (the movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe).

Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts.

Below the cut are more page images and links to the shows and books we mention during our conversation.

Uppsala-Eddan, Uppsala University Library DG 11 (digitized on the Alvin portal)

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 50

Close-up on p. 50 - see the man's name written over his head (also there's a little hole in the parchment on the right, with the text from the page before visible through it)

Another close-up on p. 50, where a later artist (or wishes-to-be-an-artist) is trying their hand at drawing their own king.

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 49 (the other side of p. 50), with illustration of a woman added to the manuscript in the 15th century:

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 47, Skaldic lists with figures dancing (?) in the margins.

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 42. The bottom portion of the page was left blank and filled in later, with text written upside-down. The staining may be from a chemical reagent used to bring out faded ink.

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 42, a close-up of the bottom of the page, reversed so the text is right-side-up

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 43, where the upside-down text continues in the bottom margin.

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 43, bottom margin reversed and cropped

Uppsala-Eddan, front flyleaf recto (original parchment with text and illustration added later)

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 1, close-up of "sphinx-like creature" (I'm not really sure what that is!)

Uppsala-Eddan, front flyleaf verso with Bishop drawn in after the original text was written, probably at the same time as the text written on the recto side of the leaf

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 1, the first page of the Edda text.

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 1, a close-up at the text in red at the top of the page, which names the text as Edda and the author as Snorri Sturluson (both underlined)

Uppsala-Eddan, p. 1, close-up of the initial, which is quite fancy for an Icelandic manuscript

Thor movies in the MCU (IMDB)

Vikings TV show (IMDB)

The Northman (Dir. Robert Eggers, 2022) (IMDB)

πορφυρογέννητη, a fan fiction by neonheartbeat (posted with permission from the author)

Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison (book on Goodreads)

#medieval #manuscript #podcast #old norse #icelandic #icelandic manuscript #snorri sturluson #prose edda #skaldic poetry #vikings #thor #imfm #imfmpod

[ask-medieval-norway-and-iceland]

So, ice, nor how yall adjusting to the modern world? (and the pandemic)

Iceland: This mask is a lot better than my old one!

M!A: 1/4

#aph iceland #aph norway #hws iceland #hws norway #medieval iceland #medieval norway #answered #M!A #duckofwar

[medievalistsnet]

#medieval #history #books #iceland #sagas #icelandic sagas

[cithaerons]

i was thinking too about how some of the greatest works of epic oral poetry came from cultures that had very little in the way of great physical & architectural traditions. hmm.

#dark age greece spawned the iliad medieval iceland spawned the icelandic epics & eddas. hmm #(or perhaps medieval scandinavia on the latter but you know)

[valkyrjacom]

• Mother tongue • As a child, I went to Icelandic classes to learn more about my mother tongue after the regular Norwegian school was over. No doubt these classes sparked my interest in Norse cultural history which I think and dream about to this day, and my enjoyment in historical reenactment and recreation. During these classes, we did everything from dissecting fish and learning the Icelandic terms for each part of it, to drawing the creation of the world in Norse Mythology. We read the saga literature in Old Icelandic, those precious treasures meticulously written with ink of vellum by medieval authors and poets with such eye for detail and beauty. One of those authors is believed to have been Snorri Sturluson, my 22nd great grandfather on my maternal grandfathers’ side, who supposedly wrote the Younger Edda and Heimskringla (which I am holding in this photo). I wonder: Can you find something you recognize amongst my cloud of thoughts and inspirations? 👉 Full blog post and photo at Valkyrja.com (link in bio) 🌿 #viking #vikings #medieval #heimskringla #history #icelandicsaga #norsesaga #icelandic #norwegian #norse #vikingage #vikingwoman #vikingsofinstagram #vikinglife #vikingblog #valkyrie #valkyrja https://www.instagram.com/p/CjOPZ3pL3Mw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#viking #vikings #medieval #heimskringla #history #icelandicsaga #norsesaga #icelandic #norwegian #norse #vikingage #vikingwoman #vikingsofinstagram #vikinglife #vikingblog #valkyrie #valkyrja

[schistostegapennata]

So apparently the Árni Magnùsson Institute got a grant to digitize all of their ancient letters and documents and the database will be called Archive Arnamagnæana, crying happy researcher tears ;-; I already love them for being part of https://handrit.is/, a free database for digitized Icelandic manuscripts. Have an illumination from the Grettis Saga (shelfmark AM 426) to celebrate:

#grettis saga #grettir's saga #iceland #medieval art #medieval manuscripts #icelandic manuscripts #illuminated manuscripts