From Rus' to Rímur
Norse History, Culture, and Literature East and West

Shaun F. D. Hughes (Edited by), Allyn K. Pearson (Edited by)

9780935995275

Hardback, published 15 July 2024

264 pages, 7 color photos - 7 Illustrations, color
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg

From Rus' to Rímur, volume 65 in the Islandica series and simultaneously an issue in the occasional journal New Norse Studies, offers six contributions that range across Europe from East to West and across three categories: "Historical Studies," "Literary Studies," and "New Editions." The volume opens with a historical-onomastic study of the Varangian presence in Medieval Rus' and proceeds to the Isle of Man for a consideration of its population's "ethnogenesis" in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Literary studies and fresh translations follow to return our attention to the remarkable creativity in sagas and poetry that was an especially rich province of Norse and Icelandic culture.

Introduction
1. The Destinies of Varangians in Eleventh- to 17 Twelfth-Century Rus': Yakun "the Blind," S(h)imon,and his Son George
2. "From that Union came the Manx people": Ethnogenesis in the Isle of Man in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
3. "A Never-Ending Story": History, Saga, and Secondary Creation
4. The Aesthetics of Concealment and Revelation in the Skaldic Poetry of Kári Sölmundarson
5. Jóns saga leiksveins: A Text and Translation
6. Depicting Friendship in Early Modern Iceland: Apellis ríma by Eiríkur Hallsson.