Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations………………………………………..………...................................vi Preface …………………………………………………..…..............................................1 Felicitas Schmieder, Paradise Islands in the East and West – Tradition and Meaning in Some Cartographical Places on the Medieval Rim of the World .......................................................................... 3 Kristel Zilmer, The Powers and Purposes of an Insular Setting – on Some Motifs in Old-Norse Literature …….……..……………..………. 23 Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jacobsen, Monastic “Islands” in Medieval Denmark:: Insular Isolation in Ideal and Practice ................................................................... 36 Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen, Religious Athletes – on the Perception of the Body in Medieval Asceticism ………………………………………………….… 45 Eldar Heide, Holy Islands and the Otherworld: Places beyond Water ……………….. 57 Else Mundal, Hvítramannaland and Other Fictional Islands in the Sea ………………. 81 Margaret Elphinstone, The Unknown Island …………..……………………………..... 88 Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen, Will the Son of Nine Sisters Rule the Sea-Kidney? ....................97 Gerhard Jaritz, The Quality of Islands in Middle High German Literature ………….. 111 Juhan Kreem, Seasonal Isolation in the Communication in Livonia …………………..120 Torstein Jørgensen, Utstein Monastery: An Island on an Island – or not? …………..… 128 List of Contributors………………….…………………………………………...... 139 Index ……………………………………………………………………………… 140 ...