Author: Bekker-Nielsen, Hans, editor:
Title: Mediaeval Scandinavia 12
Description: Odense, Odense University Press, (1988). orig. cloth. 25x17cm, 314,(4) pp.. 4pp plates, textual charts. Corner bumps, slight rear cover scratches, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contains 15 papers + reviews & notes. Includes: F. Amory "Pseudoarchaism & Fiction in 'Kroka-Refs Saga' "; H. Palsson "A Foundation Myth in ' Landnamabok' "; J.P. Schjodt "The 'Fire Ordeal' in the 'Grimnismal' - Initiation or Annihilation?"; S.M. Szacherska "Valdemar II's Expedition to Pruthenia & the Mission of Bishop Christian"; A.K.G. Kristensen "Free Peasants in the Early Middle Ages: Freeholders, Freedmen or What?"; I. Marxen & E. Moltke "The Jelling Man & Other Paintings from the Viking Age";W.G. van Emden "The New Ogier Corpus"; P. Buchholz "Geschichte, Mythos, Marchen - drei Wurzeln germanischer Heldensage?"; T.A: Vestergaard "The System of Kinship in Early Norwegian Law"; S. Margeson "Sigurd with Two Swords"; A. Kabell "Zur Meldorf-Inschrift"; V. Almazan "Translations at the Castilian & Norwegian Courts in the 13th Century: Parallels & Patterns"; O. Halldorsson "An Ancient Description of Greenland"; J. Lind "The Russian Sources of King Magnus Eriksson's Campaign against Novgorod 1348-1351 - Reconsidered"; O.J. Zitzelsberger "Medieval Physiology Encoded: An Icelandic 'Samtal' ".

Keywords: Medieval History, Scandinavia, Viking Era, Scandinavian, Saga Literature, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland