The context, purpose, and dissemination of legendary genealogies in northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241

The thesis is a comparative and multidisciplinary study of legendary genealogies in the historical writing of northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241. Historical writing was produced in abundance over this period in both areas and the frequent contact between England and Scandinavia, as well...

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Main Author: Lunga, Peter Sigurdson
Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Christ's 2018
Subjects:
Medieval History
genealogy
Snorri Sturluson
Aelred of Rievaulx
Ailred of Rievaulx
De Primo Saxonum Aduentu
Heimskringla
Genealogia Regum Anglorum
De Gestis Regum
The Prose Edda
Euhemerisation
legendary genealogy
paganism
historiography
genealogical appropriation
Myths of Origin
Origin myths
Trojan genealogy
Biblical genealogy
Noah
Brutus
Durham
Iceland
Rievaulx
Meykonungar
Meykongr
demonisation
Woden
Skaldic poetry
Bilateral genealogies
cognatic genealogies
Óðinn
Yngvi-Freyr
Matilda II of England
Empress Matilda
Skúli Bárðarson
Hákon Hákonarson
Fagrskinna
John of Worcester
illuminated genealogies
manuscript illumination
legitimation
demonology
Tree of Jesse
Worcester Accounts
Snæfriðr Svásadóttir
Henry FitzEmpress
Henry II of England
Symeon of Durham
Skúli
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.25405
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278065

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