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Mnemonic Echoing in Old Norse Sagas and Eddas / Pernille Hermann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Memory and the Medieval North ; 1Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 262 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110674842
  • 9783110675030
  • 9783110674958
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 839/.609 23/eng/20220909
LOC classification:
  • PT7148 .H47 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1 Introduction: Memory in Medieval Literature -- 2 Memorizing by Way of Books -- 3 Imageries -- 4 Technologies -- 5 The Senses -- 6 Buildings and Seating -- 7 Cartography -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Indexes
Summary: This book brings together Old Norse-Icelandic literature and critical strategies of memory, and argues that some of the particularities of this vernacular textual tradition are explained by the fact that this literature derives from, represents, and incorporates into its designs mnemonic devices of different kinds. Even if Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript culture is relatively silent about the mnemonic context of the literature, the texts themselves exhibit multiple reminiscences of memory. By showing that this literature reveals glimpses of mnemonic technologies at the same time as it testifies to a cultural memory, this study demonstrates how ‘the past’, and narrative traditions about the past, were constructed in a dynamic relationship with ideas that existed at the time the texts were written. Moreover, the book deals with the function of memory in early book-culture, with metaphors of memory, and with mnemonic cues such as spatiality and visuality. With its new readings of canonical texts like the Íslendingasǫgur, the Prose Edda and selected eddic poems, as well as of less widely studied branches of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, such as the sagas of bishops and religious texts, this book will be of interest to Old Norse scholars and to scholars interested in medieval Scandinavia and memory studies.
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Frontmatter -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1 Introduction: Memory in Medieval Literature -- 2 Memorizing by Way of Books -- 3 Imageries -- 4 Technologies -- 5 The Senses -- 6 Buildings and Seating -- 7 Cartography -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Indexes

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This book brings together Old Norse-Icelandic literature and critical strategies of memory, and argues that some of the particularities of this vernacular textual tradition are explained by the fact that this literature derives from, represents, and incorporates into its designs mnemonic devices of different kinds. Even if Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript culture is relatively silent about the mnemonic context of the literature, the texts themselves exhibit multiple reminiscences of memory. By showing that this literature reveals glimpses of mnemonic technologies at the same time as it testifies to a cultural memory, this study demonstrates how ‘the past’, and narrative traditions about the past, were constructed in a dynamic relationship with ideas that existed at the time the texts were written. Moreover, the book deals with the function of memory in early book-culture, with metaphors of memory, and with mnemonic cues such as spatiality and visuality. With its new readings of canonical texts like the Íslendingasǫgur, the Prose Edda and selected eddic poems, as well as of less widely studied branches of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, such as the sagas of bishops and religious texts, this book will be of interest to Old Norse scholars and to scholars interested in medieval Scandinavia and memory studies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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