Rory Mc Turk is Professor of Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds. Previously he has taught at the Universities of Lund and Copenhagen and at University College, Dublin. He is the author of Studies in Ragnars saga lodbrókar and its Major Scandinavian Analogues (1991) and Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds (2005), and has translated Kormáks saga for the Penguin Sagas of Warrior-Poets (2002).
6 Ebooks de Rory McTurk
Rory McTurk: A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture
This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture demonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language and culture from medieval to modern times. * Comprises 29 chapters written …
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Anders Ahlqvist & Liam Breatnach: Ollam
Ollam (‘;ollav’), named for the ancient title of Ireland’s chief poets, celebrates the career of Toms Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the …
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Gerður Kristný: Bloodhoof
Bloodhoof is a compulsively modern recasting of the ancient Eddic poem Skírnimál – a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerður Gymisdóttir from a land of giants and her eventual return from …
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Rory McTurk: Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds
Through an examination of Old Norse and Celtic parallels to certain works of Chaucer, Mc Turk here identifies hitherto unrecognized sources for these works in early Irish tradition. He revives the id …
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€61.77
Rory McTurk: Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds
Through an examination of Old Norse and Celtic parallels to certain works of Chaucer, Mc Turk here identifies hitherto unrecognized sources for these works in early Irish tradition. He revives the id …
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€61.86
Tom Birkett & Kirsty March-Lyons: Translating Early Medieval Poetry
The essays here, united by their appreciation of the centrality of translation to the interpretation of the medieval past, add to our understanding of how the old is continually made anew The first d …
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