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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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1602632025-07-16T05:23:23Z The Legendary Saga as a Medium of Cultural Memory Valpola-Walker, Alisa 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 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. 2025-05-23T05:38:49Z 2025-05-23T05:38:49Z 2025-05-22T08:39:34Z 2025 book ONIX_20250521T121453_9783111338651_51 2699-7339 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102402 9783111338651 9783111338439 9783111338859 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160263 eng Memory and the Medieval North open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102402/1/9783111338651.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102402/1/9783111338651.pdf De Gruyter De Gruyter 10.1515/9783111338651 10.1515/9783111338651 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 UK Research and Innovation 7ffe7d57-351e-4fbc-a1f0-72dedb3d6777 9783111338651 9783111338439 9783111338859 De Gruyter 201 Berlin/Boston [...] AH/L503897/1 open access |
| spellingShingle | 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 Valpola-Walker, Alisa The Legendary Saga as a Medium of Cultural Memory |
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