Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: An Introduction -- Part I: Disciplines, Traditions and Perspectives -- Culture and Communication -- I: 1 Rhetoric -- I: 2 Philosophy and Theology -- I: 3 History of Religion -- I: 4 Mythology -- I: 5 Folklore Studies -- I: 6 Performance Studies -- I: 7 Orality and Oral Theory -- Material Culture -- I: 8 Archaeology -- I: 9 Late Iron Age Architecture -- I: 10 Medieval Architecture -- I: 11 Museology -- Philology -- I: 12 Law -- I: 13 Linguistics and Philology -- I: 14 Material Philology -- I: 15 Runology -- Aesthetics and Communication -- I: 16 Literary Studies -- I: 17 Trauma Studies -- I: 18 Media Studies -- I: 19 Spatial Studies -- I: 20 Translation Studies -- I: 21 Visual Culture -- Constructing the Past -- I: 22 History -- I: 23 Medieval Latin -- I: 24 Environmental Humanities -- Neighbouring Disciplines -- I: 25 Anglo-Saxon Studies -- I: 26 Celtic Studies -- I: 27 Sámi Studies -- In-Dialogue -- I: 28 Reception Studies -- I: 29 Popular Culture -- I: 30 Contemporary Popular Culture -- Part II: Case Studies -- Media: Mediality -- II: 1 Orality -- II: 2 Writing and the Book -- II: 3 Manuscripts -- II: 4 Skin -- II: 5 Textual Performativity -- II: 6 Text Editing -- II: 7 Miracles -- II: 8 Hagiography -- Media: Visual modes -- II: 9 Images -- II: 10 Óðinn’s Ravens -- II: 11 Ornamentation -- II: 12 Animation -- II: 13 Marian Representations -- Media: Narrating the past -- II: 14 Dialogues with the Past -- II: 15 Trauma -- II: 16 Icelanders Abroad -- II: 17 Folk Belief -- II: 18 Emotions -- II: 19 Remembering Gendered Vengeance -- II: 20 Remembering the Future -- Space: Nature -- II: 21 Nature and Mythology -- II: 22 Climate and Weather -- II: 23 Skyscape -- Space: Landscape -- II: 24 Onomastics -- II: 25 Cartography -- II: 26 Diaspora -- II: 27 Pilgrimage -- II: 28 Pilgrimage – Gotland -- II: 29 Landscape and Mounds -- II: 30 Saga Burial Mounds -- II: 31 Sites -- II: 32 Memorial Landscapes -- Action: Using specialist knowledge -- II: 33 Skalds -- II: 34 Kennings -- II: 35 Charm Workers -- II: 36 Mental Maps -- II: 37 Mnemonic Methods -- Action: Performing commemoration -- II: 38 Ritual -- II: 39 Ritual Lament -- II: 40 Memorial Toasts -- II: 41 Women and Remembrance Practices -- II: 42 Donation Culture -- II: 43 Chain Dancing -- II: 44 Neo-Paganism -- Power: Designing beginnnings -- II: 45 Origins -- II: 46 Genealogies -- II: 47 Religion and Gender -- II: 48 Strategies of Remembering -- II: 49 Remembering Origins -- Power: National memories -- II: 50 Danish Perspectives -- II: 51 Danish Perspectives – N.F.S. Grundtvig -- II: 52 Faroese Perspectives -- II: 53 Greenlandic Perspectives -- II: 54 Icelandic Perspectives -- II: 55 Norwegian Perspectives -- II: 56 Norwegian Perspectives – Heimskringla -- II: 57 Swedish Perspectives -- II: 58 Swedish Perspectives -- II: 59 Balto-Finnic Perspectives -- Power: Envisioning the northern past -- II: 60 Canadian Perspectives -- II: 61 U.S. Perspectives -- II: 62 North American Perspectives – Suggested Runic Monuments -- II: 63 Irish Perspectives -- II: 64 British Perspectives -- II: 65 The Northern Isles -- II: 66 French Perspectives -- II: 67 German Perspectives -- II: 68 Polish Perspectives -- II: 69 Russian Perspectives -- II: 70 Russian Perspectives – Viking -- Part III: Texts and Images -- Einleitung -- Remembering the Past and Foreseeing the Future: Mnemonic genres and classical Old Norse memory texts -- Media of Memory and Forgetting: Oral and written transmission of memories in prologues and colophones -- Media of Memory and Forgetting: Figures of remembering and forgetting -- Memory in Action: Memory strategies and memory scenes in sagas, poetry, laws, and theological and historical texts -- Runic Inscriptions -- Colour Plates -- Select Bibliography of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies -- Contributors -- Index

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In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic Studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-modern Nordic world (mainly the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, but including as well both earlier and later periods). Given that Memory Studies is an ever expanding critical strategy, the approximately eighty contributors in this volume also discuss the potential for future research in this area. Topics covered range from texts to performance to visual and other aspects of material culture, all approached from within an interdisciplinary framework. International specialists, coming from such relevant fields as archaeology, mythology, history of religion, folklore, history, law, art, literature, philology, language, and mediality, offer assessments on the relevance of Memory Studies to their disciplines and show it at work in case studies. Finally, this handbook demonstrates the various levels of culture where memory had a critical impact in the pre-modern North and how deeply embedded the role of memory is in the material itself.

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