Learned and Scientific Literature

• Main Author: Wolf, Kirsten
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2023
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780195396584-0324

The extant learned and scientific literature from medieval Scandinavia and Iceland is likely only a small portion of what once existed. It includes, but is not limited to, astronomical, encyclopedic, geographical, grammatical, and medical literature. With the exception of a number of the geographical works, some of the medical treatises, and the so-called Four Grammatical Treatises, this literature has received modest scholarly attention, probably because much of it is based on translations or adaptations of non-native works. Information about the literature is found primarily in encyclopedias and in introductions to editions of the various works.