Searching Library Catalogs
Use OskiCat to locate materials on the shelves of the UC Berkeley libraries and also to:
- renew books online
- find course reserves and to
- place holds on items that are checked out.
Use Melvyl to locate materials at other campuses in the UC system, or worldwide, and also to
- request materials from another library if we don't own it
- find articles from some article databases
- easily format a citation for copying into a bibliography Melvyl will also show you the location and availablity of items that we own.
Language tips (OskiCat)
- Ignore diacritics
- use a instead of á
- use n instead of ñ
- use the transliterated spelling (for non-Roman languages)
- Limit results by language (Modify search)
- Use alternate spellings for foreign names
- Brennu-Njals vs Njals
- Hrafnkell vs Hrafnkel
Starting points
The Library of Congress Subject Heading link for Sagas--History and Criticism provides a great list of relevant sources.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, see especially:
- Vol. 148: German Writers & Works of the Middle Ages: 800-1170.
- Vol. 293: Icelandic Writers.
- Vol. 115: Medieval Philosophers.
The growth of the medieval Icelandic sagas (1180-1280)
[electronic resource]
Author: Andersson, Theodore Murdock, 1934-
Read at Google
Read at Google
Author: Andersson, Theodore Murdock, 1934-
Medieval Primary Sources
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The Online Medieval and Classical Library
"A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization [in translation]." -
The Digital Scriptorium
"A growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research."
Last Update: December 05, 2012 10:15 | Tagged with: German history Middle Ages

