Conceptualizing the Multicultural ‘North’ in the Íslendingasögur: Peoples, Places, and Phenomena

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Solveig Marie Wang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Norse-Sámi relations; Íslendingasögur; Liminal landscapes; Medieval spatial understandings; Norwegian literature; PT8301-9155; Fjall; Norway; Fennoscandia; Fennoscandian; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.5480; https://doaj.org/article/4c4bcca6f064477ba1a60ee5d7c673fb

During the early medieval period, a large part of Fennoscandia was inhabited by the Sámi (Zachrisson 2008, 32). With written sources such as Historia Norvegiæ, Ágrip af Noregs konungasǫgum, and Heimskringla referring to Sámi settlements in the Viking and medieval period reaching as far south into N...