The Legendary Saga as a Medium of Cultural Memory A Study of Late Medieval Icelandic Manuscripts

This book examines how the legendary Scandinavian past is ‘remembered’ in two late medieval Icelandic saga manuscripts. Drawing on insights from cultural memory studies and material philology, it situates them in their literary, media, and historical contexts to argue that they served particular fun...

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Main Author Valpola-Walker, Alisa
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2025
SeriesMemory and the Medieval North
Subjects
13th century, c 1200 to c 1299
2ACSX Old Norse
Altnordisch
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
c 1000 CE to c 1500
CE period up to c 1500
Cultural and media studies
cultural memory
Cultural studies
Gedächtnis+kulturell
Germanic and Scandinavian languages
Icelandic sagas
Indo-European languages
Island+Mittelalter
Isländisch+Saga
Language qualifiers
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Literary studies: general
Literature: history and criticism
Medieval Iceland
Old Norse
Scandinavian languages
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Time period qualifiers
cultural memory
Old Norse
Medieval Iceland
Icelandic sagas
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Summary:This book examines how the legendary Scandinavian past is ‘remembered’ in two late medieval Icelandic saga manuscripts. Drawing on insights from cultural memory studies and material philology, it situates them in their literary, media, and historical contexts to argue that they served particular functions at their time of writing and then continued to shape cultural memories as they were read (or vocalised) in the centuries that followed.
ISBN:3111338436
9783111338651
9783111338439
3111338657
9783111338859
3111338851
ISSN:2699-7339
DOI:10.1515/9783111338651