Sagas of Icelanders

•  Bestiary

  A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson. This reflected the belief that the world itself was the Word of God, and that every living thing had its own special meaning.

  

  56.3%
  

  18.8%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Chronicle

  Generally a chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the chronicler. This is in contrast to a narrative or history, which sets selected events in a meaningful interpretive context and excludes those the author does not see as important.

  

  40.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Edda

  The term Edda (Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century. They are the main sources of medieval Norse mythology and skaldic tradition in Iceland. Some of the older poems included may predate the date of their recording by several centuries, establishing continuity with the Viking Age.

  

  35.7%
  

  42.9%
  

  21.4%
  
•  Heimskringla

  Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79–23rd sept. 1241) ca. 1230. The name Heimskringla was first used in the 17th century, derived from the first two words of one of the manuscripts (kringla heimsins - the circle of the world).

  

  22.2%
  

  33.3%
  

  44.4%
  
•  Kenning

  A kenning is a circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse and later Icelandic poetry. For example, Old Norse poets might replace sverð, the regular word for “sword”, with a compound such as “wound-hoe”, or a genitive phrase such as randa íss “ice of shields”. The term kenning has been applied by modern scholars to similar figures of speech in other languages too, especially Old English.

  

  41.7%
  

  25.0%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word "Rubaiyat", (derived from the Arabic root word for 4), meaning "quatrains".

  

  20.0%
  

  60.0%
  

  20.0%
  
•  Divine Comedy

  The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church. It helped establish the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard.

  

  35.3%
  

  17.6%
  

  47.1%
  
•  Summary of Decameron tales

  This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories contained in Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. Each story of the Decameron begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story. The 1903 J. M. Rigg English translation headings are used in many of these summaries. Commentary on the tale itself follows.

  

  25.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Qur'an

  The Qur’an is the central religious verbal text of Islam, also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Qur’ān, Koran, Al-Coran or Al-Qur’ān. Muslims believe the Qur’an to be the verbal book of divine guidance and direction for mankind, and consider the original Arabic verbal text to be the final revelation of God.

  

  31.6%
  

  26.3%
  

  42.1%
  
•  Mystery play

  Mystery plays and Miracle plays are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. Medieval mystery plays focused on the representation of Bible stories in churches as tableaux with accompanying antiphonal song. They developed from the 10th to the 16th century, reaching the height of their popularity in the 15th century before being rendered obsolete by the rise of professional theatre.

  

  28.6%
  

  42.9%
  

  28.6%
  

• Medieval literature by likeorhate
• Icelanders' sagas by likeorhate
• Icelandic literature by likeorhate

Register now, and make your vote count more!

•  St John's Eve

  The evening of June 23, St John's Eve, is the eve of celebration before the Feast Day of St John the Baptist. The Gospel of Luke states that John was born about six months before Jesus, therefore the feast of John the Baptist falls on June 24, six months before Christmas. This feast day is one of the very few saints' days to mark the anniversary of the birth, rather than the death, of its namesake. The Feast of St John coincides with the June solstice also referred to as Midsummers.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  
•  Frittata

  A frittata is a type of italian omelette, either simple or enriched with additional ingredients, such as meats, cheeses, vegetables and even pasta. It may be compared to a crust-less quiche or, in America, "scrambled eggs. " A frittata is prepared in a frying pan like a traditional French omelet. However, whereas an omelet is cooked on a stove top and served folded, a frittata is not folded and is typically finished in an oven or under a broiler.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Louis, Comte Molé

  

  34.6%
  

  15.4%
  

  50.0%
  
•  I-640 (NC)

  

  38.5%
  

  38.5%
  

  23.1%
  
•  05-cv-5477

  

  52.4%
  

  23.8%
  

  23.8%