Narrating Law and Laws of Narration in Medieval Scandinavia PDF
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NarratingLawandLawsofNarrationinMedievalScandinavia Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde Herausgegeben von Sebastian Brather, Wilhelm Heizmann und Steffen Patzold Band 117 Narrating Law and Laws of Narration in Medieval Scandinavia Edited by Roland Scheel ISBN978-3-11-065421-9 e-ISBN(PDF)978-3-11-066181-1 e-ISBN(EPUB)978-3-11-066232-0 ISSN1866-7678 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2019952561 BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableontheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. ©2020WalterdeGruyterGmbH,Berlin/Boston Typesetting:IntegraSoftwareServicesPvt.Ltd. Printingandbinding:CPIbooksGmbH,Leck www.degruyter.com Foreword Thisvolumepresentstheresultsfromtheinternationalworkshop‘NarratingLawand Laws of Narration in Medieval Scandinavia’ which was held at the Georg-August- Universität in Göttingen in March 2017. The meetings took place at the Historical University Library adjacent to the Paulinerkirche, thereby connecting to the noble history of the institution, as Jacob Grimm was professor and law librarian at Göttingenbetween1830and1837.Notonlydidtheworkshopcoincidewiththe180th anniversaryoftheconstitutionalistprotestationbytheGöttingenSevenandthesub- sequent end of Grimm’s career in the Kingdom of Hanover, but it also tied in with Grimm’s interests and the beginnings of Scandinavian Studies at Göttingen. Jacob Grimmwasoneofthefirstscholarswhosystematicallycombinedlegalandnarrative texts, including sagas, in order to reconstruct ‘Germanic’ law in his ‘Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer’.Whilehisconceptofa‘Germanic’continuumprovedtobeprob- lematic indeed and does not provide a frame of reference for this book, his idea of analysingbothlawbooksandnarrationsofdisputesandlegalitiesmakeshisworka distantforerunneroflegalanthropologyandtheway‘law’isconceptualisedanddis- cussedinthefollowingcontributions. I would like to thank the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung for the financial support of the workshop and the copyediting process and to person- ally thank StellaLammers and Michael Rauser for theirwork in the preparation of thisvolume. RolandScheel,May2019 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661811-202 Contents Foreword V ListofContributors IX RolandScheel NarratingLawandLawsofNarration:Introduction 1 Part ANarratingLaw:LegalTexts–NarrativeTexts–Contexts JónViðarSigurðsson ChieftainsandtheLegalCultureinIcelandc.1100–1260 39 HansJacobOrning MakingKingHákonGreatAgain:Law,God,MoralityandPower inBjörgvin,1223 57 ÁrmannJakobsson LawPersonified.TheIgnoredClimacticSpeechesofBrennu-Njálssaga 77 Part BLaws ofNarration: NarratologicalApproaches HannahBurrows CourtPoetry:AssembliesandSkaldicVerse 91 KyleHughes Whatis‘GoodLaw’?LawasCommunalPerformance intheÍslendingasögur 117 RolandScheel RevengeorSettlement?LawandFeudinEarlySagasofIcelanders 135 Part CNarrating Law: DiscoursesonSocial Norms KeithRuiter BerserksBehavingBadly:ManipulatingNormativeExpectations inEyrbyggjasaga 171 VIII Contents DanielaHahn SocialandDiegeticHierarchiesinCasesofThievery. AStudyofMǫðruvallabók 185 Part DNarratingLaw: Mythological Traditions HeikeSahm FeudalLawandArchaicOrder:TheDiscussionofDifferentSocialSystems intheQueens’DisputeintheNibelungenlied 205 JiříStarý HistoryorIdea?TheLegendaryLawsofOldNorsemen 225 AnneIreneRiisøy Vǫlundr–aGatewayintotheLegalWorldoftheVikings 255 MatthiasTeichert Týr,FenrirandtheBrísingamen.TalesofLaw,CrimeandViolenceinEddic MythologyandtheirIndo-EuropeanSubcontexts 275 NameIndex 289 PlaceIndex 295
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