Mnemonic Echoing in Old Norse Sagas and Eddas

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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 Íslendingasogur, 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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Mittelalter
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	XIII 262 S. 3 s/w Illustr. 10 farbige Illustr. 3 b/w and 10 col. ill.
ISBN-13:	9783110674842
ISBN-10:	311067484X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Hermann, Pernille
Auflage:	1/2022
Hersteller:	De Gruyter GmbH
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, D-10785 Berlin, productsafety@degruyterbrill.com
Maße:	235 x 163 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Pernille Hermann
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.08.2022
Gewicht:	0,513 kg