The Book of Reykjahólar
by Marianne E. Kalinke
Book · Trade Paperback · 1996 · Condition: very good
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A scholarly study of the Book of Reykjahólar (Reykjahólabók), an Icelandic legendary produced on the eve of the Reformation, by Marianne E. Kalinke, published by University of Toronto Press in 1996. It analyses the Icelandic translations of otherwise unattested Low German saints' lives, including the legends of St Christopher, St George, St Jerome and Gregorius peccator, and surveys German hagiography and early sixteenth-century Icelandic religious culture.
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Preowned book with wear and signs of use
- Author
- Marianne E. Kalinke
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Year
- 1996
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Edition
- 2
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 376
- Subject
- Reykjahólabók; Christian hagiography; Saints' legends, Medieval; Old Norse literature; Low German literature
- ISBN
- 9780802078148
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