Memory and the Medieval North – serie
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Reflections of Traditional Oral Memory in the Eddas and Sagas
Inbunden, 2026
1251 kr
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The Eddas and Sagas of medieval Iceland are literary achievements, reflecting both the imaginative power and the memory practices of the culture that produced them. Written in various genres and narrative styles, they combine learned ideas of their time with traditional storytelling methods, …
Mnemonic Echoing in Old Norse Sagas and Eddas
Inbunden, 2022
1837 kr
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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 …
Memory and Remembering in Early Irish Literature
Beyond the Backward Look
Inbunden, 2023
1810 kr
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Ireland possesses an early and exceptionally rich medieval vernacular tradition in which memory plays a key role. What attitudes to remembering and forgetting are expressed in secular early Irish texts? How do the texts conceptualise the past and what does this conceptualisation tell us about the …
Legendary Saga as a Medium of Cultural Memory
A Study of Late Medieval Icelandic Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2025
1731 kr
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This book examines the representation and historical significance of the legendary Scandinavian past as it is depicted in two late medieval Icelandic saga manuscripts: AM 589a–f 4to and AM 586 4to. It situates the manuscripts within their literary, media, and historical contexts to read the …
Cultural Memory in the Icelandic Contemporary Sagas
Constructing Continuity at a Time of Transformation
Inbunden, 2025
1616 kr
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The objective of this book is to analyse the Old Icelandic sagas dealing with the twelfth to fourteenth centuries – the secular contemporary sagas and the bishops’ sagas – from the perspective of cultural memory studies. This approach foregrounds their function as sources of the late medieval …
