Norse Romance III
Title Details

320 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

Series: Arthurian Archives

Series Vol. Number: 5

Imprint: D.S.Brewer

Norse Romance III

Hærra Ivan

Edited by Marianne Kalinke, Henrik Williams and Karin Palmgren

Translated by Henrik Williams and Karin Palmgren

  • Description
Final volume in three-volume set of translations of Arthurian romances from medieval Scandinavia.

Hærra Ivan (Sir Ivan, the Knight with the Lion) is the first major work of fiction in Swedish, and an important Scandinavian example of Arthurian romance. The translation from the French original was carried out at the request of the German-born Queen Eufemia of Norway, a country with a richer literary culture than Sweden at the time: Hærra Ivan thus brought Continental, courtly culture to the then recently formalised Swedish feudal class.
Last edited in 1931, the poem has been unjustly neglected in recent years; this edition and English translation, with introduction, will make it widely accessible to international scholars.

Professor MARIANNE KALINKE teaches in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; HENRIK WILLIAMS teaches in the Department of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University.

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9781843843078

August 2012

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Title Details

320 Pages

2.34 x 1.56 cm

Series: Arthurian Archives

Series Vol. Number: 5

Imprint: D.S.Brewer