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Beyond the Northlands
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Description| Publisher | Oxford University Press UK |
| Author(s) | Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough |
| Subtitle | Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas |
| Published | 27th October 2016 |
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Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
To explore the sagas and the world that produced them, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough now takes her own trip through the dramatic landscapes that they describe. Along the way, she illuminates the rich but often confusing saga accounts with a range of other evidence: archaeological finds, rune-stones, medieval world maps, encyclopaedic manuscripts, and texts from as far away as Byzantium and Baghdad. As her journey across the Old Norse world shows, by situating thesagas against the revealing background of this other evidence, we can begin at least to understand just how the world was experienced, remembered, and imagined by this unique culture from the outermost
edge of Europe so many centuries ago.
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