Greinar í þessu hefti Griplu eru allar á ensku og byggðar á fyrirlestrum sem fluttir voru á rástefnunni „Nordic Civilisation in the Medieval World" sem haldin var í Skálholti 5.–9. september 2007. Fyrirlesarar voru tuttugu og fimm talsins frá átta löndum, mannfræðingar, fornleifafræðingar, bókmenntafræðingar, heimspekingar og rúnafræðingar. Höfundar greina eru: Jóhann Páll Árnason, Sverre Bagge, Gunnar Karlsson, Richard Gaskins, Kirsten Hastrup, Przemyslaw Urbanczyk, Margaret Clunies Ross, Rudolf Simek, Torfi H. Tulinius, Vilhjálmur Árnason, Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson og Joseph Harris.
Ritstjóri: Vésteinn Ólsson

Efni:

Vésteinn Ólason: Introduction

Jóhann Páll Árnason: A Mutating Periphery: Medieval Encounters in the Far North

Sverre Bagge: Nordic Uniqueness in the Middle Ages? Political and Literarty Aspects

Gunnar Karlsson: Was Iceland the Galápagos of Germanic Political Culture?

Richard Gaskins: Creating at the Margins: Cultural Dynamics in Early Iceland

Kirsten Hastrup: Northern Barbarians: Icelandic Canons of Civilisation

Przemysław Urbańczyk: Deconstructing the “Nordic Civilization”

Margaret Clunies Ross: Medieval Icelandic Textual Culture

Rudolf Simek: The Medieval Iceland World View and the Theory of the Two Cultures

Torfi H. Tulinius: The Self as Other. Iceland and the culture of Southern Europe in the Middle Ages

Vilhjálmur Árnason: An Ethos in Transformation: Conflicting Values in the Sagas

Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson: Honour and Shame: Comparing Medieval Iceland and Ancient Greece

Joseph Harris: Philology, Elegy, and Cultural Change

Bókin er gefin út í ritröðinni Rit Árnastofnunar (Rit 74).