Add to ORKGIn this article accounts of Iceland and Greenland from the late Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century will be examined with consideration given to the type of national images appearing there. The aim of the article is to explain these images and discuss their development and origin, not least how ideas about islands and the North in general have influenced the descriptions of these two countries. The research is based on two connected research traditions: the field of imagology and postcolonial studies, which means that the sources are studied as representations, as a discourse on islands in the periphery in the far North
References to islands are innumerable in Old Norse-Icelandic literature, especially in sagas includi...
The perception of Old Norse literature in post-medieval times moves between an aesthetically motivat...
FræðigreinarThe paper argues that there is not necessarily a correlation between political, economic...
This article charts the role of Finnur Jónsson’s Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ in the development ...
This article sheds light on the issue of national identity as related to the Tourist Association of ...
This article analyses five fourteenth-century Old Norse travel narratives in light of the learned ge...
This article will examine ways in which Iceland has been fictionally recreated by the foreign imagin...
Cet article relate le projet ayant mené à la réalisation de l'ouvrage Norður / Des enfants islandais...
This article discusses the fundamental fluidity of Icelandic place-lore. It approaches this topic th...
Stranded in a stormy corner of the North Atlantic midway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islan...
This paper examines the similarities and differences between the development of Iceland, Greenland, ...
This article first examines the image of northern antiquity conveyed in the productive reception of ...
From the time of their earliest texts in the vernacular, Icelanders were interested in the semiotici...
This article focuses on the ambivalent theme of Viking heritage, myth, and image deriving from the O...
Beginning in the late eighth century A.D., the Vikings of Scandinavia expanded westward, first to ra...
References to islands are innumerable in Old Norse-Icelandic literature, especially in sagas includi...
The perception of Old Norse literature in post-medieval times moves between an aesthetically motivat...
FræðigreinarThe paper argues that there is not necessarily a correlation between political, economic...
This article charts the role of Finnur Jónsson’s Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ in the development ...
This article sheds light on the issue of national identity as related to the Tourist Association of ...
This article analyses five fourteenth-century Old Norse travel narratives in light of the learned ge...
This article will examine ways in which Iceland has been fictionally recreated by the foreign imagin...
Cet article relate le projet ayant mené à la réalisation de l'ouvrage Norður / Des enfants islandais...
This article discusses the fundamental fluidity of Icelandic place-lore. It approaches this topic th...
Stranded in a stormy corner of the North Atlantic midway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islan...
This paper examines the similarities and differences between the development of Iceland, Greenland, ...
This article first examines the image of northern antiquity conveyed in the productive reception of ...
From the time of their earliest texts in the vernacular, Icelanders were interested in the semiotici...
This article focuses on the ambivalent theme of Viking heritage, myth, and image deriving from the O...
Beginning in the late eighth century A.D., the Vikings of Scandinavia expanded westward, first to ra...
References to islands are innumerable in Old Norse-Icelandic literature, especially in sagas includi...
The perception of Old Norse literature in post-medieval times moves between an aesthetically motivat...
FræðigreinarThe paper argues that there is not necessarily a correlation between political, economic...