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IN SEARCH OF THE CULPRIT A N D E R E Ä S T H E T I K 1 S T U DI E N Schriftenreihe des SFB 1391 Herausgegeben von Annette Gerok-Reiter Beirat Matthias Bauer Sarah Dessì Schmid Stefanie Gropper Johannes Lipps Anna Pawlak Jörg Robert Jan Stellmann Dietmar Till Anja Wolkenhauer IN SEARCH OF THE CULPRIT Aspects of Medieval Authorship Edited by Lukas Rösli and Stefanie Gropper Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – SFB 1391 – Project-ID 405662736 ISBN 978-3-11-069267-9 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-072533-9 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-072548-3 ISSN 2749-652X e-ISSN 2749-6538 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110725339 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Library of Congress Control Number: 2021944863 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2021 with the authors, editing © 2021 Lukas Rösli and Stefanie Gropper, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston The book is published open access at www.degruyter.com. Cover design and title pages: P. Florath, Stralsund Cover image: Initial at the beginning of Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. The Arni Magnusson Institute for Icelandic Studies, GKS 1005, fol. 164r (Iceland, 1387–1394). Used with permission. Typesetting: Dörlemann Satz, Lemförde Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com Acknowledgements After a very interesting and fruitful workshop in July 2019 entitled “The Medieval Author – A Phantasm?”, which was financed by Svenska Riksbankens Jubileumsfond via the project MoMod (Modes of Modification), we decided that this topic yielded so many interesting aspects that we would like to invite not only our participants, but also other scholars to contribute their expertise to an interdisciplinary volume. Since then, various people and institutions have played an important role in making this project happen. The editors would like to thank SFB (Sonderforschungsbereich) 1391 Andere Ästhetik for accepting this volume into their series published by De Gruyter; special thanks must go to Annette Gerok-Reiter, who, as the spokesperson of SFB 1391, supported this project from its very beginning. A big thank you is due to Paula Zeman for copy-editing the volume, to Alexander Wilson, who meticulously corrected all our grammatical and sty- listic errors, and especially to Marisa Irawan and Susanne Borgards, who, with a lot of diligence and with their vast knowledge of editorial matters, finalised this volume. Last but not least, we would like to thank our contributors for their patience and for writing their chapters in as timely a fashion as possible. Berlin and Tübingen, September 2021 List of Contents | 5 Acknowledgements 9 | Lukas Rösli and Stefanie Gropper In Search of the Culprit. Aspects of Medieval Authorship. Introduction 17 | Jürg Glauser “… who is the author of this book?” Creating Literary Authorship in Medieval Iceland 53 | Lukas Rösli The Primal Scribe. The Old Norse scriptogenesis and Ari Þorgilsson inn fróði as Iceland’s First Author 75 | Stefanie Gropper The ‘Heteronomous Authorship’ of Icelandic Saga Literature. The Example of Sneglu-Halla þáttr 97 | Sigurður Ingibergur Björnsson, Steingrímur Páll Kárason and Jón Karl Helgason Stylometry and the Faded Fingerprints of Saga Authors 123 | Judy Quinn Anonymity and the Textual Construction of Authority in Prosimetrum 141 | Lena Rohrbach The Persistence of the Humanistic Legacy. Concepts of Authorship and Textuality in Konungasögur Studies 175 | Slavica Rankovic´ Spectres of Agency. The Case of Fóstbrœðra saga and its Distributed Author 193 | Gudrun Bamberger A Theory of Early Modern Authorship. Dealing with Accountability in 16th-Century German Prose Novels 8 List of Contents 217 | Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker Shakespeare’s Medieval Co-Authors 239 | Madita Knöpfle Conceptions of Authorship. The Case of Ármanns rímur and Their Reworkings in Early Modern Iceland 265 | Margrét Eggertsdóttir The Best-Written Saga and the Absence of its Author | 289 Figures and Charts | 291 Index of Names | 294 Index of Works | 297 Index of Manuscripts | 299 Index of Matters
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