Gísli Sigurðsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4166597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gísli Sigurðsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gísli |
| FAMILY NAME | Sigurðsson |
| SIGNATURE | SIGURDSSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How Gylfi’s Illusion Breathes Life into the Sky
To date it has mostly been overlooked that the illusion in ‘Gylfi's Illusion’ is based on a metaphor, where what we can literally see in the sky is transformed into mythological phenomena through the magic of storytelling. By taking this idea at face value it becomes possible to look at the sky as a memory tool for the world of the gods. Thus everything we have above us in the sky has a mythological name and often a story attached to it, making i…
Vǫluspá as the Product of an Oral Tradition
This book, with roots in a conference held in Iceland in May 2008, contains a series of articles reflecting modern approaches to the text, context, and performance of the Old Norse poem Vǫluspá, perhaps the best known and most discussed of all the Eddic poems. Rather than attempting to cover Eddic or Skaldic poetry as a genre, the main aim of this book is to present an overview of the ‘state of the art’ with regard to one particular Eddic poem. I…
Past Awareness in Christian Environments
A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics . Margaret Clunies Ross
Old Icelandic Literature and Society
From the period of settlement (870–930) to the end of the fourteenth century, Icelanders produced one of the most varied and original literatures of medieval Europe. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social setting and across a range of genres. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an establi…
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Old Icelandic Literature and Society
From the period of settlement (870–930) to the end of the fourteenth century, Icelanders produced one of the most varied and original literatures of medieval Europe. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social setting and across a range of genres. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an establi…
A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics . Margaret Clunies Ross
Vǫluspá as the Product of an Oral Tradition
This book, with roots in a conference held in Iceland in May 2008, contains a series of articles reflecting modern approaches to the text, context, and performance of the Old Norse poem Vǫluspá, perhaps the best known and most discussed of all the Eddic poems. Rather than attempting to cover Eddic or Skaldic poetry as a genre, the main aim of this book is to present an overview of the ‘state of the art’ with regard to one particular Eddic poem. I…
Past Awareness in Christian Environments
How Gylfi’s Illusion Breathes Life into the Sky
To date it has mostly been overlooked that the illusion in ‘Gylfi's Illusion’ is based on a metaphor, where what we can literally see in the sky is transformed into mythological phenomena through the magic of storytelling. By taking this idea at face value it becomes possible to look at the sky as a memory tool for the world of the gods. Thus everything we have above us in the sky has a mythological name and often a story attached to it, making i…
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Mythology (2 works)