Islands in the West : classical myth and the medieval Norse and Irish geographical imagination / by...
Islands in the West : classical myth and the medieval Norse and Irish geographical imagination / by...
Islands in the West : classical myth and the medieval Norse and Irish geographical imagination / by Matthias Egeler.
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Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]
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G 2020/3050
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English
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xii, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Summary
This monograph traces the history of one of the most prominent types of geographical myths of the North-West Atlantic Ocean: transmarine otherworlds of blessedness and immortality. Taking the mythologization of the Viking Age discovery of North America in the earliest extant account of 'Vínland' ('Wine-Land') and the Norse transmarine otherworlds...
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Islands in the West : classical myth and the medieval Norse and Irish geographical imagination / by Matthias Egeler.
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Medieval voyaging ; volume 4
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-247) and index.
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©2017
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G 2020/3050
Record Identifier
74VKadbgyWGO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKadbgyWGO
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ISBN
9782503569383
DDC
293.13
MMS ID
991024322219202626
