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Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the 'oecumene' in particular. It also examines the unique information of these sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware: namely, the saga and skaldic poetry data concerning the visits of the four Norwegian kings to Old Rus in the late-tenth and mid-eleventh centuries.

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Author

Tatjana N. Jackson

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press, Arc Humanities Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781641890274

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Literary Criticism