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MELBOURNE: Sagas of the Icelanders
https://sophiaclub.co/event/sagas-of-the-icelanders
Delve into themes of love, honour, exile and magic with writer and scholar Kári Gíslason, actor Eloïse Mignon, and musicians Erkki Veltheim and Aviva Endean.
The Icelandic sagas date back a thousand years: vivid stories that are redolent of ancient pagan tales yet also strangely modern. Told in spare, swift and poetic prose, the sagas capture a society in negotiation with itself, filled with strong-minded characters who had fled kingly Europe for a new society on the fringes of habitable land. What can we learn from their deep-thinking storytelling today?
The Icelandic sagas date back a thousand years: vivid stories that are redolent of ancient pagan tales yet also strangely modern. Told in spare, swift and poetic prose, the sagas capture a society in negotiation with itself, filled with strong-minded characters who had fled kingly Europe for a new society on the fringes of habitable land. What can we learn from their deep-thinking storytelling today?
https://sophiaclub.co/library#sagas-of-the-icelanders
Saga Land
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Within and without family in the Icelandic sagas
The inspired vengeance of mythic Icelandic women
In Viking sagas, the ‘truth’ is a tangle of history and fictions
Video: A Viking axe struck a Newfoundland tree in the year 1021. Here’s how scientists proved it
Kári Gíslason
Speaker
Speaker
Eloïse Mignon
Artist
Artist
Erkki Veltheim
Artist
Artist
Aviva Endean
Artist
Artist
