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Narration and Hero : Recounting the Deeds of Heroes in Literature and Art of the Early Medieval Period / ed. by Victor Millet, Heike Sahm.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde ; 87Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (449 p.) : div. AbbContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110336139
  • 9783110369779
  • 9783110338157
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PT179 .N37 2014
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction/Einleitung -- Conversational Skills for Heroes -- Redeeming Beowulf. The Heroic Idiom as Marker of Quality in Old English Poetry -- The Fury of the Northmen and the Poetics of Violence -- Fate and God, Gallows and Cross, Sword and Spear. The Variation of Counterconcepts as Part of the Poetic Diction in the Old Saxon Heliand -- Negotiating Heroism and Humour in the Cattle-Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cuailnge) -- Der monströse Heros oder Wenn der ungeheure Held zum Ungeheuer wird. Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte des Figuren-Typus ‚Drachenkämpfer‘ in der altnordischen und altenglischen Literatur -- Held und Narrativ. Zur narrativen Funktion des Heros in der mittelalterlichen Literatur -- Deconstructing Snorri. Narrative Structure and Heroism in Eyrbyggja saga -- Zwischen Hildebrand und Hadubrand. Held und Zeit im Hildebrandslied -- Deconstructing the Hero in Early Medieval Heroic Poetry -- Giving and Receiving. The Integrity of the Hero in the Earliest Chansons de geste -- Helden und Schwerter. Durchschlagkraft und agency in heldenepischem Zusammenhang -- Die ‚Erzählung des Helden‘ in narrativen Passagen der Historia Langobardorum des Paulus Diaconus -- Die mythische Vorgeschichte des Nibelungenhorts -- Christus und andere Helden. Bemerkungen zu einigen altenglischen Gedichten -- Christus als Lichtbringer und Held. Polarität im Heliand und in zeitgenössischen Bildzeugnissen -- Fremde Helden? Narrative Transcodierung und Konnexion des Nibelungenlieds im mittelniederländischen Nevelingenlied -- Svipdagsmál: Gender, Genre, and Reconstruction -- Index
Summary: By the early middle ages vernacular aristocratic traditions of heroic narration were firmly established in Western and Northern Europe. Although there are regional, linguistic and formal differences, one can observe a number of similarities. Oral literature disseminates a range of themes that are shared by narratives in most parts of the continent. In all the European regions, this tradition of heroic narration came into contact with Christianity, which led to modifications. Similar processes of adaptation and transformation can be traced everywhere in this field of early European vernacular narrative. But with the increasing specialization of academic fields over the last half century, inter-disciplinary dialogue has become increasingly difficult. The volume is a contribution to renew the inter-disciplinary dialogue about common themes, topics and motifs in Nordic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Germanic literature, and about the different methodologies to explore them.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction/Einleitung -- Conversational Skills for Heroes -- Redeeming Beowulf. The Heroic Idiom as Marker of Quality in Old English Poetry -- The Fury of the Northmen and the Poetics of Violence -- Fate and God, Gallows and Cross, Sword and Spear. The Variation of Counterconcepts as Part of the Poetic Diction in the Old Saxon Heliand -- Negotiating Heroism and Humour in the Cattle-Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cuailnge) -- Der monströse Heros oder Wenn der ungeheure Held zum Ungeheuer wird. Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte des Figuren-Typus ‚Drachenkämpfer‘ in der altnordischen und altenglischen Literatur -- Held und Narrativ. Zur narrativen Funktion des Heros in der mittelalterlichen Literatur -- Deconstructing Snorri. Narrative Structure and Heroism in Eyrbyggja saga -- Zwischen Hildebrand und Hadubrand. Held und Zeit im Hildebrandslied -- Deconstructing the Hero in Early Medieval Heroic Poetry -- Giving and Receiving. The Integrity of the Hero in the Earliest Chansons de geste -- Helden und Schwerter. Durchschlagkraft und agency in heldenepischem Zusammenhang -- Die ‚Erzählung des Helden‘ in narrativen Passagen der Historia Langobardorum des Paulus Diaconus -- Die mythische Vorgeschichte des Nibelungenhorts -- Christus und andere Helden. Bemerkungen zu einigen altenglischen Gedichten -- Christus als Lichtbringer und Held. Polarität im Heliand und in zeitgenössischen Bildzeugnissen -- Fremde Helden? Narrative Transcodierung und Konnexion des Nibelungenlieds im mittelniederländischen Nevelingenlied -- Svipdagsmál: Gender, Genre, and Reconstruction -- Index

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By the early middle ages vernacular aristocratic traditions of heroic narration were firmly established in Western and Northern Europe. Although there are regional, linguistic and formal differences, one can observe a number of similarities. Oral literature disseminates a range of themes that are shared by narratives in most parts of the continent. In all the European regions, this tradition of heroic narration came into contact with Christianity, which led to modifications. Similar processes of adaptation and transformation can be traced everywhere in this field of early European vernacular narrative. But with the increasing specialization of academic fields over the last half century, inter-disciplinary dialogue has become increasingly difficult. The volume is a contribution to renew the inter-disciplinary dialogue about common themes, topics and motifs in Nordic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Germanic literature, and about the different methodologies to explore them.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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