Icelanders and the kings of Norway [Elektronisk resurs] mediaeval sagas and legal texts / by Patricia Pires Boulhosa.

• The book uses sagas and legal texts to re-examine the relations between mediaeval Icelanders and the Norwegian kings. It demonstrates that the Icelanders - partly subjects of the king, and partly beyond his power - were ready to negotiate with him for their own benefit, and presents a methodological re-evaluation of authorial attributions of the sagas and their use as historical sources. Key to the book is a revisionary analysis of two laws made between the Icelanders and the kings of Norway: a law probably issued by King Óláfr inn helgi of Norway (1015-1028), and the purported submission agreements with King Hákon Hákonarson (1217-1263), known as Gizurarsáttmáli or Gamli sáttmáli. It also analyses the sagas of the fourteenth-century manuscript Möðruvallabók against the historical context extracted from this legal re-evaluation. 

Ämnesord

Politiska förhållanden  (sao)

Medeltiden  (sao)

Law in literature.  (LCSH)

Sagas  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Law  -- Iceland -- History. (LCSH)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

Iceland  -- History -- To 1262. (LCSH)

Iceland  -- Relations -- Norway. (LCSH)

Norway  -- Relations -- Iceland. (LCSH)

Norge och Island  -- historia (sao)

Island och Norge  -- historia (sao)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Kdc.3 Historia: Island: under Norge 1262-1537

Kdb.3 Historia: Norge: medeltiden ca 1030-1536

Kdc.3 Historia: Island: under Norge 1262-1537

Kdb.3 Historia: Norge: medeltiden ca 1030-1536

Klassifikation

PT7181 (LCC)

839.6309 (DDC)

Kdc.3/DR (kssb/7)

Kdb.3/DR (kssb/7)

Kdc.3 (kssb/7)

Kdb.3 (kssb/7)