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The Legendary Saga as a Medium of Cultural Memory

This book examines how the legendary Scandinavian past is ‘remembered’ in two late medieval Icelandic saga manuscripts. Drawing on insights from cultural memory studies and material philology, it situates them in their literary, media, and historical contexts to argue that they served particular fun...

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Autor principal: Valpola-Walker, Alisa
Format: Online
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: De Gruyter 2025
Matèries:
Medieval Iceland
Old Norse
cultural memory
Icelandic sagas
thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic and Scandinavian languages::2ACS Scandinavian languages::2ACSX Old Norse
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500::3KL c 1000 CE to c 1500::3KLN 13th century, c 1200 to c 1299
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
Accés en línia:ONIX_20250521T121453_9783111338651_51
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Sumari:This book examines how the legendary Scandinavian past is ‘remembered’ in two late medieval Icelandic saga manuscripts. Drawing on insights from cultural memory studies and material philology, it situates them in their literary, media, and historical contexts to argue that they served particular functions at their time of writing and then continued to shape cultural memories as they were read (or vocalised) in the centuries that followed.

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