The American Petroleum Industry [2 Volumes]: The Age of Illumination, 1859-1899; The Age of Energy, 1899-1959

By Gilbert C. Klose, Arnold R. Daum, Harold F. Williamson, et al.

This book provides a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre that textualized their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313227888
• ISBN13: 9780313227882
• Release Date: March 1981
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 928 Pages
• Weight: 6.30 lbs.