Icelandic sagas, eddas, and art : treasures illustrating the greatest mediaeval literary heritage of northern Europe : the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York 1982.

Identifier:REF.GEC1.0389

Dimensions:84 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Creation dates:1982

photographs by: Jónas Kristjánsson, Arne Mann Nielsen

Subjects: Icelandic literature -- Manuscripts -- Exhibitions., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Iceland -- Exhibitions., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Norse--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions., Manuscripts, Old Norse -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions., Old Norse literature -- Manuscripts -- Exhibitions., Sagas -- Manuscripts -- Exhibitions.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Icelandic literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Norse, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Old Norse, Sagas

Description:CBA Copy 1. Catalog published in accordance with a 1982 exhibition at the Pierpont Morgan Library which celebrated the first time Iceland ever loaned any of their eddas to New York. As the prime literature of Iceland in the Middle Ages, the eddas and sagas highlight a historic era when manuscripts themselves were a form of art. Includes essays and catalog of an exhibition held at the Library, Sept. 16-Nov. 14, 1982.