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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2025Saga emotions
by Gareth Lloyd Evans, Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, Carolyne Larrington
Focusing particularly on historically oriented sagas, Saga emotions identifies and examines a range of emotions from across Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature. Each chapter begins with a discrete emotion term, such as reiði (anger), gleði (joy), or the peculiarly Old Norse víghugr (killing-mood), exploring its usages within the broad saga corpus, and focusing on its contextual meanings and narrative purposes. The contributions explore the specifics of the lexical terms used for different emotion states and offer in-depth case studies that consider how various emotions manifest within particular examples of saga literature. The book offers the emotional granularity lacking in current studies of Norse emotion and serves as an essential foundation for future research and study into emotional depiction in Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2026From Iceland to the Americas
Vinland and historical imagination
by Tim William Machan, Jón Karl Helgason
This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.
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FictionHANSEATIC RADIANCE - A FAMILY SAGA SET IN HAMBURG
by Miriam Georg
A turbulent era. An impossible love affair. A moving saga. Hamburg 1886. Lily, whose father is a ship owner, dreams of becoming a writer. During a ship-naming ceremony, Lily gives a short speech during which her hat is blown off her head. One of the workers tries to get it back for her and is badly injured. Lily is shocked that no one sympathises with the young man’s fate. Then Johannes Bolten comes to the ship owner’s villa to demand compensation for his injured friend. Lily wants to help and allows herself to be drawn into a dangerous game of hide-and-seek. She begins a passionate affair with him. But Jo, who comes from the notorious gangland area, has a secret that Lily must never discover…
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2020From Iceland to the Americas
by Tim William Machan, Jón Karl Helgason, James Paz
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2026Globalising the Nordic Model
From exceptionalism to entanglement
by Mary Hilson
The five Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - frequently attract attention as examples of a 'Nordic model'. The meanings of the term vary, but especially since the global financial crisis of 2008-9 the Nordic countries have often been portrayed positively, as examples of economic dynamism, innovation and social equality. Studies of these images of the Nordic countries and Nordic region and their international circulations are now a well-established field of research. This volume explores how the Nordic model has been shaped by global entanglements, in exchange not only with Western Europe and North America, but also with the Global South. Drawing on selected case studies, the volume offers new perspectives on the meanings of the Nordic model and Nordic exceptionalism in a global context during the half century since c. 1970.
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October 2020Neapolitanische Saga (4 Bände)
by Elena Ferrante, Karin Krieger
Die Geschichte der lebenslangen Freundschaft zwischen Lila und Elena begeisterte Millionen. Als Kinder begegnen sich die beiden zum ersten Mal im Neapel der 50er Jahre. Sehr bald gehen sie getrennte Wege. Jede für sich erlebt Liebe, Arbeit, Ehe, Mutterschaft, die Umwälzungen im Land, das Vergehen der Jahre, und doch bleiben sie zeit ihres Lebens unmissverständlich aufeinander bezogen. Bis die eine spurlos verschwindet und der anderen nichts bleibt, als dagegen anzuschreiben: Die Neapolitanische Saga beginnt. Vier Bände, ein literarisches Ereignis, jetzt im Schuber zum großartigen Preis.
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April 2022Fritz, the Gorilla
Biography of a Fascinating Ape
by Jenny von Sperber
When Jenny von Sperber first met Fritz, the gorilla didn’t let her out of his sight. He was already over 50 years old then, but he was still extremely charismatic. One thing matters for the journalist: she wants to find out everything about Fritz’s life. Born in 1963, he was captured in the wild and came from Cameroon to Germany in 1966. At that time, apes were still regarded as a curiosity in zoos. When a ban was declared on the wild gorilla trade, Fritz was already a father of many youngsters. This fascinating gorilla-family saga not only recounts the eventful life of Fritz, but also shows the development in European zoos in handling wild animals. Nowadays, things have certainly improved. But there are still questions, for example, what does it do to us when we marvel at our closest relatives behind glass? And is it even still current to confine apes ... was it ever?
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September 202312 Stockwerke. Mein unglaubliches Zuhause am Ende der Welt
Nominiert für den Jugendliteraturpreis 2024. Humorvoller Familien- und Umweltroman aus Island für alle ab 10
by Arndís Thórarinsdóttir, Hulda Sigrún Bjarnadóttir, Gisa Marehn, Horstschäfer Felicitas
*** Nominiert für den Jugendliteraturpreis 2024 *** Was wäre, wenn sich dein ganzes Leben in einem Hochhaus mit zwölf Stockwerken abspielt? Eine herrlich verrückte Geschichte, die zum Lachen bringt und zum Nachdenken über das eigene Handeln anregt. Eigentlich hatte sich Dagny auf den Ferienausflug mit ihrer Familie gefreut. Vor allem darauf, endlich ihre Oma kennenzulernen, die auf einer kleinen, wetterumtosten Insel wohnt. Doch als Dagny dort ankommt, fühlt sich das an wie eine Reise ans Ende der Welt! Noch dazu scheint sich Oma kein bisschen über den Besuch zu freuen. Überhaupt – die ganze Insel ist seltsam. Sämtliche 197 Einwohner leben zusammen in einem einzigen Hochhaus mit zwölf Stockwerken, und alles, was für Dagny immer selbstverständlich war, ist hier Mangelware. Shopping, Kinobesuche, ein eigenes Zimmer: Fehlanzeige! Sogar den Strom für ihr Smartphone muss Dagny selbst am Hometrainer erzeugen. Während sie versucht, sich an ihr neues Zuhause zu gewöhnen, geschehen auf der Insel plötzlich unerklärliche und bedrohliche Dinge. Das stellt den Zusammenhalt der Hochhausgemeinschaft auf eine harte Probe! Kann Dagny herausfinden, wer hinter den Taten steckt, bevor der Verdacht auf ihre eigene Familie fällt? Mit viel Witz und in lebendiger, bildreicher Sprache zeigt das isländische Autorinnenduo, wie mit Solidarität, Mitgefühl und Respekt ganz unterschiedliche Lebensentwürfe einander bereichern können. Ein Mut machendes Buch für alle ab 10, die sich über ihren Platz in der Welt Gedanken machen. »Selten hat mir ein Kinderroman so viel Spaß gemacht … lasst euch dieses originelle, schräge und unterhaltsame Buch nicht entgehen!«(Katja Brandis, Autorin von Woodwalkers) Ausgezeichnet mit dem Icelandic Literary Award 2020. Gedruckt auf Recycling-Umweltschutzpapier, zertifiziert mit dem Blauen Engel.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2020Northern memories and the English Middle Ages
by Tim William Machan, David Matthews, Anke Bernau, James Paz
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September 2012Die Porsche-Saga
Eine Familiengeschichte des Automobils
by Ammann, Thomas; Aust, Stefan
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August 2012Die Elfling Saga
Zwei Romane in einem Band
by Price, Susan / Übersetzt von Petri, Edda; Übersetzt von Bülles, Marcel
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