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Steinunn Refsdóttir, the Glossary

Index Steinunn Refsdóttir

Steinunn Refsdóttir was an Icelandic skald active at the end of the 10th century.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 11 relations: Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta, Þangbrandr, Iceland, Kristni saga, Landnámabók, Lausavísa, Njáls saga, Olaf Tryggvason, Old Norse religion, Skald, Thor.

  2. 10th-century Icelandic people
  3. 10th-century Icelandic poets
  4. 10th-century Icelandic women
  5. Icelandic women poets
  6. Medieval women poets

Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta

Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta or The Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason is generically a hybrid of different types of sagas and compiled from various sources in the fourteenth century, but is most akin to one of the kings' sagas.

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Þangbrandr

Þangbrandr was a missionary sent to Iceland by king of Norway Óláfr Tryggvason to convert the inhabitants to Christianity.

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Iceland

Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.

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Kristni saga

Kristni saga ("the book of Christianity") is an Old Norse account of the Christianization of Iceland in the 10th century and of some later church history.

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Landnámabók

Landnámabók ("Book of Settlements"), often shortened to Landnáma, is a medieval Icelandic written work which describes in considerable detail the settlement (landnám) of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries CE.

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Lausavísa

In Old Norse poetry and later Icelandic poetry, a lausavísa (pl. lausavísur) is a single stanza composition, or a set of stanzas unconnected by narrative or thematic continuity.

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Njáls saga

Njáls saga, also Njála, or Brennu-Njáls saga (Which can be translated as The Story of Burnt Njáll, or The Saga of Njáll the Burner), is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020.

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Olaf Tryggvason

Olaf Tryggvason (960s – 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000.

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Old Norse religion

Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples.

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Skald

A skald, or skáld (Old Norse:, later;, meaning "poet") is one of the often named poets who composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry in alliterative verse, the other being Eddic poetry.

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Thor

Thor (from Þórr) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism.

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See also

10th-century Icelandic people

10th-century Icelandic poets

10th-century Icelandic women

Icelandic women poets

Medieval women poets

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinunn_Refsdóttir