Preface 7
Konungs skuggsjá and the Interplay between Universal and Particular
Karl G. Johansson and Elise Kleivane
Wonders at the End of the World: The Time of Marvels in Gerald of Wales’s Topographia Hibernica
Mary Franklin-Brown
Quasi in Speculo: Maps and Geographical Thought in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Alfred Hiatt
The World Image of the Konungs skuggsjá
Dale Kedwards
Konungs skuggsjá and the Earliest Fragments – A Key to New Insights into Norwegian Literate Culture
Karl G. Johansson
There is More to Stjórn than Biblical Translation
Elise Kleivane
Prester John at the Norwegian Court: The Learned Discource about the Indies in Old Norse Sources
Sverrir Jakobsson
Biblical Kings and Kingship Theory in Medieval Ireland and Norway
Elizabeth Boyle
Composition and Social Structure in Konungs skuggsjá
Sverre Bagge
Encyclopaedic Tendencies and the Medieval Educational Programme: The Merchant’s Chapter of Konungs skuggsjá
Alessia Bauer
The Konungs skuggsjá and the Emergence of a New Elite in Thirteenth-Century Norway
Hans Jacob Orning
Illustrations
Bibliography
About the authors
Indices