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Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jomsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast, launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. The saga's account of their stringent warrior code, fatalistic adherence to their own reckless vows and declarations of extreme courage as they face execution articulates a remarkable account of what it meant to be a viking. This translation presents the longest and earliest text of the saga, never before published in English, with a full literary and historical introduction to this remarkable work.

Sagas --- Icelandic sagas. --- Isländische Saga. --- Scandinavian history. --- Skandinavistische Geschichte. --- Wikinger. --- vikings. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian.

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This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures and their modern afterlives. The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature. Demonstrating the lively state of contemporary research on Old Norse and related subjects, this collection celebrates Heather O'Donoghue's extraordinary and enduring influence on the field, as manifested in the wide-ranging and innovative research of her former students and colleagues.

Death --- Material culture --- Death in literature. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Icelandic Sagas. --- Medievalism. --- Old Norse Literature. --- Skaldic Verse.

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New research methods allow us to explore how relics of the material culture of the medieval north can confront, corroborate, or disprove the depiction of social norms in the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, which remains the most important source of our present-day knowledge of social development in the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia. This interdisciplinary volume considers in depth how social values such as reputation, honour, and friendship, were integral to the development of rituals, customs, religion, literature, and language in the medieval North.

Scandinavia --- Fennoscandia --- Norden --- Nordic countries --- Civilization --- History. --- History --- HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia. --- Icelandic sagas. --- Vikings. --- medieval Scandinavia. --- medieval society. --- social norms. --- To 1397