Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World

by Gillian R. Overing

Book Overview

An exhilarating journey across a distant literary landscape, this book takes us to those places described, evoked, or invented in Beowulf and the sagas of Iceland. Chronicling their own travels in Scandinavia, charting the geography of medieval history and fiction, the authors negotiate the complex territory where past and present meet. In this encounter, ancient and modern viewpoints converge, forming a new way into the northern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816623759
• ISBN13: 9780816623754
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"