Author: Snorri SturlusonPublisher: Viking Society for Northern Research University College
ISBN: 9780903521857
Category : Eddas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Uppsala Edda
Author: Snorri SturlusonPublisher: Viking Society for Northern Research University College
ISBN: 9780903521857
Category : Eddas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Uppsala-Edda
Author: Heimir PálssonPublisher:
ISBN: 9789151313955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The university library in Uppsala houses a manuscript that is believed to have been written in Iceland during the first quarter of the 14th century, perhaps even as early as the year 1300. According to the rubric on f. 2r (p. 1), it contains the work Edda as put together by Snorri Sturluson. The manuscript found its way to Sweden when Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie arranged for the purchase of a chest of books from the estate of Danish rector Stephan Stephanius of Sorø, Zealand, in 1650. Stephanius had received the book as a gift from his friend Brynjólfur Sveinsson, later Bishop of Skálholt, in 1639. Little else is known of the history of this manuscript, which has since often been referred to as Uppsala-Edda. The version of Snorri's Edda discussed in this book is only preserved in one single manuscript, in which the work is internally divided with unrelated yet thematically connected material from other sources. The book especially discusses the parts of the work most often referred to as Uppsala Edda, while paying close attention to the fact that the DG 11 4to manuscript is itself an independent textbook that deserves to be understood and explained as such.
Mnemonic Echoing in Old Norse Sagas and Eddas
Author: Pernille HermannPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110674955
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book brings together Old Norse-Icelandic literature and critical strategies of memory, and argues that some of the particularities of this vernacular textual tradition are explained by the fact that this literature derives from, represents, and incorporates into its designs mnemonic devices of different kinds. Even if Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript culture is relatively silent about the mnemonic context of the literature, the texts themselves exhibit multiple reminiscences of memory. By showing that this literature reveals glimpses of mnemonic technologies at the same time as it testifies to a cultural memory, this study demonstrates how ‘the past’, and narrative traditions about the past, were constructed in a dynamic relationship with ideas that existed at the time the texts were written. Moreover, the book deals with the function of memory in early book-culture, with metaphors of memory, and with mnemonic cues such as spatiality and visuality. With its new readings of canonical texts like the Íslendingasǫgur, the Prose Edda and selected eddic poems, as well as of less widely studied branches of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, such as the sagas of bishops and religious texts, this book will be of interest to Old Norse scholars and to scholars interested in medieval Scandinavia and memory studies.
The End of the World in Scandinavian Mythology
Author: Anders HultgårdPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192867253
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
"A myth about the end of the world, the Ragnarok, was told among Viking Age Scandinavians. It is here reconsidered against a comparative background. The signs of the end, the final battle, the destruction and renewal of the world are the main themes distinguished. The myth was handed down in a Christian medieval context and the problem of Christian influence is thoroughly discussed. Particular attention is given to the Old Norse homilies as instruments of conveying Christian teachings to both the elites and the common people. The comparative framework is set up by traditions on the end of the world in early Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the Graeco-Roman world, Celtic Europe as well as ancient Iran and India. The geographical area covered by these traditions formed a network of cultural contacts providing possibilities of various influences. These texts are studied in their own right to avoid superficial paralleling. The analogies with Iranian traditions are striking and include the idea of the cosmic tree, the role of number 'nine', and the myth of the heavenly warriors"--
Edda
Author: Snorri SturlusonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780903521680
Category : Scalds and scaldic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia
Author: Jonas WellendorfPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842497X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.
The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature
Author: Mikael MalesPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110643936
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely conservative form of literature, namely skaldic poetry, was at the core of the most innovative literary and intellectual experiments in the period. The book argues that this cannot simply be explained as a result of strong local traditions, as in most previous scholarship. Thus, for instance, the author demonstrates that the mix of prose and poetry found in kings’ sagas and sagas of Icelanders is roughly contemporary to the written sagas. Similarly, he argues that treatises on poetics and mythology, including Snorri’s Edda, are new to the period, not only in their textual form, but also in their systematic mode of analysis. The book contends that what is truly new in these texts is the method of the authors, derived from Latin learning, but applied to traditional forms and motifs as encapsulated in the skaldic tradition. In this way, Christian Latin learning allowed for its perceived opposite, vernacular oral literature of pagan extraction, to reach full fruition and to largely replace the very literature which had made this process possible in the first place.
The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland
Author: Ryder Patzuk-RussellPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501514180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Medieval Iceland is known for the fascinating body of literary works it produced, from ornate court poetry to mythological treatises to sagas of warrior-poets and feud culture. This book investigates the institutions and practices of education which lay behind not only this literary corpus, but the whole of medieval Icelandic culture, religion, and society. By bringing together a broad spectrum of sources, including sagas, law codes, and grammatical treatises, it addresses the history of education in medieval Iceland from multiple perspectives. It shows how the slowly developing institutions of the church shaped educational practices within an entirely rural society with its own distinct vernacular culture. It emphasizes the importance of Latin, despite the lack of surviving manuscripts, and teaching and learning in a highly decentralized environment. Within this context, it explores how medieval grammatical education was adapted for bilingual clerical education, which in turn helped create a separate and fully vernacularized grammatical discourse.
The Saints in Old Norse and early Modern Icelandic Poetry
Author: Kirsten WolfPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487500742
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.
Women and Weapons in the Viking World
Author: Leszek Garde?aPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789256682
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Viking Age (c. 750–1050 AD) is conventionally seen as a tumultuous time when hordes of fierce warriors from Scandinavia wreaked havoc across the European continent and when Norse merchants travelled to distant corners of the world in pursuit of slaves, silver, and exotic commodities. Until relatively recently, archaeologists and textual scholars had the tendency to weave a largely male-dominated image of this pivotal period in world history, dismissing or substantially downplaying women's roles in Norse society. Today, however, there is ample evidence to suggest that many of the most spectacular achievements of Viking Age Scandinavians - for instance in craftsmanship, exploration, cross-cultural trade, warfare and other spheres of life - would not have been possible without the active involvement of women. Extant textual sources as well as the perpetually expanding corpus of archaeological evidence thus demonstrate unequivocally that both within the walls of the household and in the wider public arena women’s voices were heard, respected and followed. This pioneering and lavishly illustrated monograph provides an in-depth exploration of women's associations with the martial sphere of life in the Viking Age. The multifarious motivations and circumstances that led women to engage in armed conflict or other activities whereby weapons served as potent symbols of prestige and empowerment are illuminated and interpreted through an interdisciplinary approach to medieval literature and archaeological evidence from Scandinavia and the wider Viking world. Additional cross-cultural excursions into the lives and legends of female warriors in other past and present cultural milieus - from the Asiatic steppes to the savannas of Africa and European battlefields - lead to a nuanced understanding of the idea of the armed woman and its embodiments in Norse literature, myth and archaeological reality.