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  • REMEMBERING ENGLAND: CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS
    MATTHEW FIRTH
    This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact. The Íslendingasögur present themselves as histories, but they are difficult historical sources. Their setting is the Saga Age, a period that begins with the settlement of ...

    $1,240.00

  • EARLY ENGLISH QUEENS, 850–1000
    MATTHEW FIRTH
    This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing the development of the queen’s role from bed companion to institutional office. The period 850–1000 is critical to the development of English queenship. In the aftermath of viking invasion, the kings of Wessex expanded their hegemony over neighbouring regions, gradu...

    $1,120.00