Any books dealing with Iceland in the 1300s (even wider timespans)?

by Wichiteglega

Hello,

I want to create a historical persona for myself (SCA-style), and I would like for it to have lived around the early 1300s in Iceland, since I'm a student of Old Norse. However, most texts I know about deal only with the Viking age, or the earliest settlement of Iceland up until Iceland became a vassal state of Norway. Is there any book that deals with the 14th century?

I am both interested in books about historical events, as well as books dealing with the material culture, the society and all other aspects of daily life.

Thank you very much!

y_sengaku

As you know, most of the literature on "medieval" Iceland tend to focus on the classical "Free State" Period before 1262/63.

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(Useful for OP's purpose?)

(Any topic on the 14th century Iceland)

  • Erika Sigurdson. The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland: The Formation of an Elite Clerical Identity. Leiden: Brill, 2016: While it apparently does not deal with OP's concern, this monograph (based on the author's dissertation) makes the best of available (extant) written evidence in the 14th century Iceland.
  • Rowe, Elisabeth A. The Development of Flateyjarbók: Iceland and the Norwegian Dynastic Crisis of 1389. Odense: U of Southern Denmark, 2005: combines the philology and historical context, illustrating how changing political trend in the late 14th century could affect the selection of works (thus the entire composition) of one of the most famous medieval Icelandic manuscript, Flateyjarbók.

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(Edited): fixes some very silly grammatical mistakes.