Mnemonic Echoing in Old Norse Sagas and Eddas (Hardcover)

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 Islendingasogur, 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.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Memory and the Medieval North
Release date:	September 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Pernille Hermann
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	275
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-067484-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	3-11-067484-X
Barcode:	9783110674842

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