The Legendary Sagas: Origins and Development

458 Pages·2012·6.845 MB·English

by  Annette Lassen, Agneta Ney, Ármann Jakobsson (eds.)

The Legendary Sagas
Origins and Development

The Legendary Sagas
Origins and Development
Editors
Annette Lassen
Agneta Ney
Ármann Jakobsson
University of iceland Press
reykjavík 2012
Each chapter in this book has been peer reviewed
by two anonymous reviewers.
We thank our reviewers for their contributions.
Peer reviewing editor: Gottskálk Þór Jensson
The Legendary Sagas: Origins and Development
edited by
annette lassen
agneta ney
Ármann Jakobsson
University of iceland Press
reykjavík 2012
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table of contents
Prologue ................................................................................. 9
i origins ................................................................................ 19
Ármann Jakobsson (Háskóli Íslands):
the earliest legendary saga Manuscripts .................................... 21
Annette Lassen (Københavns Universitet):
Origines Gentium and the learned origin of
Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda ........................................................ 33
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir (Háskóli Íslands):
the origin and development of the Fornaldarsögur
as illustrated by Völsunga Saga ................................................... 59
Agneta Ney (Högskolan i Gävle):
Edda Snorra Sturlusonar och sigurdstraditionen ........................... 83
Sandra Ballif Straubhaar (University of Texas at Austin):
iarpskammr: tribal taxonomy and transgressive exogamy
in the Fornaldarsögur ................................................................. 103
Margaret Clunies Ross (The University of Sydney):
Poetry in Fornaldarsögur: origins, nature and Purpose ................ 121
Guðrún Nordal (Háskóli Íslands):
Poetic voices in the Fornaldarsögur ............................................. 139
J.S. Love (University of Cambridge):
the organization of Poetic Quotations in
Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks ........................................................... 153
ii development and Generic considerations .................... 171
Terje Spurkland (Universitetet i Oslo):
Lygisƒgur, skrƒksƒgur and stjúpmœðrasƒgur .................................. 173
Massimiliano Bampi (Universita Ca’Foscari Venezia):
the development of the Fornaldarsögur as a Genre:
a Polysystemic approach ........................................................... 185
Marianne Kalinke (University of Illinois):
textual instability, Generic Hybridity, and
the development of some Fornaldarsögur .................................... 201
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar):
from Heroic legend to ‘Medieval screwball comedy’?
the origins, development and interpretation of the
Maiden-King narrative .............................................................. 229
Carolyne Larrington (St John’s College, Oxford University):
Völsunga Saga, Ragnars Saga and romance in old norse:
revisiting relationships ............................................................. 251
Fulvio Ferrari (Universita di Trento):
Possible Worlds of sagas: the intermingling of different
fictional Universes in the development of the Fornaldarsögur
as a Genre ................................................................................. 271
Hans Jacob Orning (Høgskulen i Volda):
¯rvar-oddr og senmiddelalderens adelskultur ........................... 291
Daniel Sävborg (Tartu universitet):
Fornaldarsagan och den “efterklassiska”
islänningasagans Uppkomst ....................................................... 323
Karl G. Johansson (Universitetet i Oslo):
narratives and narrators on the Move: some examples
of change and continuity in the tradition of fantastic fiction .... 351
iii late development ............................................................ 373
Emily Lethbridge (Cambridge):
the Place of Þorsteins saga víkingssonar in eggertsbók,
a late Medieval icelandic saga-Book .......................................... 375
Tereza Lansing (Københavns Universitet):
einn fagur aldingardur – the manuscript
transmission of Hrólfs saga kraka ................................................ 405
Silvia Hufnagel (Rannís):
Sörla saga sterka in its final Phase of Manuscript transmission .... 431
contributors ............................................................................. 455