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* '''Author''': Liepe, Lena
* '''Author''': Liepe, Lena
* '''Title''': The Knight and the Dragon Slayer: Illuminations in a Fourteenth century Saga Manuscript
* '''Title''': The Knight and the Dragon Slayer: Illuminations in a Fourteenth century Saga Manuscript
* '''Place, Publisher''': Trondheim
* '''Published in''': ''Ornament and Order. Essays on Viking and Medieval Art for Signe Horn Fuglesang''
* '''Edited by''': Margarethe C. Stang and Kristin B. Aavitsland
* '''Place, Publisher''': Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag
* '''Year''': 2008
* '''Year''': 2008
* '''Pages''': 179-199
* '''Pages''': 179-99
* '''E-text''':  
* '''E-text''':  
* '''Reference''': Lena, Liepe. "The Knight and the Dragon Slayer. Illuminations in a Fourteenth Century Saga Manuscript." ''Ornament and Order. Essays on Viking and Medieval Art for Signe Horn Fuglesang.'' Ed. Margarethe C. Stang and Kristin B. Aavitsland. Trondheim, 2008. 179–199.
* '''Reference''': Lena, Liepe. "The Knight and the Dragon Slayer. Illuminations in a Fourteenth Century Saga Manuscript." ''Ornament and Order. Essays on Viking and Medieval Art for Signe Horn Fuglesang,'' pp. 179–99. Ed. Margarethe C. Stang and Kristin B. Aavitsland. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag, 2008.
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==Annotation==  
==Annotation==  


The article is an examination of two historiated and one inhabited initials in ''Njáls saga'' manuscript AM 133 fol., ''Kálfalækjarbók'', from the textual and iconographical perspective with an analysis of Christian, chivalric and pre-medieval pictorial traditions in these illuminations. By observing the correlation between these illuminations and their connection to Augustine doctrine along with pre-Christian Scandinavian mindset Liepe discovers an extra layer of significance: cultural transition in Medieval Iceland. Although these illuminations seem to represent utterly Christian concepts like wisdom and courage fight against evil, charity and forgiveness virtues, chivalric aspect; their iconography is connected to a common imagery established in Viking Age such as Sigurðr renderings, symbolic representation of power and “deceased warriors riding to the battlefields of Valhalla.”
The article is an examination of two historiated and one inhabited initials in ''Njáls saga'' manuscript AM 133 fol., ''Kálfalækjarbók'', from a textual and iconographical perspective. The author analysis Christian, chivalric and pre-medieval pictorial traditions in these illuminations. By observing the correlation between the illuminations and Augustine doctrine, along with pre-Christian Scandinavian mindset, Liepe discovers an extra layer of significance: cultural transition in Medieval Iceland. Although these illuminations seem to represent utterly Christian concepts, like wisdom and courage, fight against evil, charity and forgiveness virtues, as well as chivalric aspect; their iconography is connected to a common imagery established in Viking Age, such as Sigurd renderings, symbolic representation of power and “deceased warriors riding to the battlefields of Valhalla.
 
==Lýsing==
==Lýsing==


Revision as of 10:23, 8 January 2016

  • Author: Liepe, Lena
  • Title: The Knight and the Dragon Slayer: Illuminations in a Fourteenth century Saga Manuscript
  • Published in: Ornament and Order. Essays on Viking and Medieval Art for Signe Horn Fuglesang
  • Edited by: Margarethe C. Stang and Kristin B. Aavitsland
  • Place, Publisher: Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag
  • Year: 2008
  • Pages: 179-99
  • E-text:
  • Reference: Lena, Liepe. "The Knight and the Dragon Slayer. Illuminations in a Fourteenth Century Saga Manuscript." Ornament and Order. Essays on Viking and Medieval Art for Signe Horn Fuglesang, pp. 179–99. Ed. Margarethe C. Stang and Kristin B. Aavitsland. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag, 2008.
  • Key words:


Annotation

The article is an examination of two historiated and one inhabited initials in Njáls saga manuscript AM 133 fol., Kálfalækjarbók, from a textual and iconographical perspective. The author analysis Christian, chivalric and pre-medieval pictorial traditions in these illuminations. By observing the correlation between the illuminations and Augustine doctrine, along with pre-Christian Scandinavian mindset, Liepe discovers an extra layer of significance: cultural transition in Medieval Iceland. Although these illuminations seem to represent utterly Christian concepts, like wisdom and courage, fight against evil, charity and forgiveness virtues, as well as chivalric aspect; their iconography is connected to a common imagery established in Viking Age, such as Sigurd renderings, symbolic representation of power and “deceased warriors riding to the battlefields of Valhalla.

Lýsing

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