Intercultural Political Models in Egils Saga and Other Literary Sources. A Philological Study

• Main Author: Costel Coroban
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies 2019
• Subjects: history; language and literature studies; literary texts; studies of literature; history of ideas; political history; middle ages; hist; litt; Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/5711/files/2020/08/05.-Coroban.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/557b535ba5fb4eaa95a8a4958ae26d9a

This article examines the way rulers are depicted in Icelandic literary sources such as Egils saga and some other literary sources belonging to medieval Scandinavia. We may presume that the construction and description of the image of Norwegian kings in that age, when Christianity had not totally replaced the Old beliefs in Iceland, are conclusive when attempting to better understand and analyze the mixed ideology of power in 12th and 13th century Norway and Iceland. Our aim is to explore the foundations of the political ideology of Early Medieval Norway, which were consolidated in the 12th and 13th centuries, when the authors and sources constructed an intercultural model of kingship based on the recently Christianized culture over which the influences of the old faith was overlapping.