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Land­scape and Myth in North-West­ern Europe
This vol­ume explores the inter­sec­tion of land­scape and myth in the con­text of north-west­ern Atlantic Europe. From the land­scapes of lit­er­a­ture to the land­scape as a lived envi­ron­ment, and from myths about super­nat­ur­al beings to tales about the myth­i­cal roots of king­ship, the con­tri­bu­tions gath­ered here each devel­op their own take on the mean­ings behind ‘land­scape’ and ‘myth’, and thus pro­vide a broad cross-sec­tion of how these wide­ly dis­cussed con­cepts might be understood.
Aris­ing from papers deliv­ered at the con­fer­ence Land­scape and Myth in North-West­ern Europe, held in Munich in April 2016, the vol­ume draws togeth­er a wide selec­tion of mate­r­i­al rang­ing from texts and toponyms to maps and archae­o­log­i­cal data, and it uses this diver­si­ty in method and mate­r­i­al to explore the mean­ing of these terms in medieval Ire­land, Wales, and Ice­land. In doing so, it pro­vides a broad­ly inclu­sive and yet care­ful­ly focused dis­cus­sion of the inescapable and pro­duc­tive inter­twin­ing of land­scape and myth.
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Sto­ry, World and Char­ac­ter in the Late Íslendin­gasögur: Rogue Sagas
The late Sagas of Ice­landers, thought to be writ­ten in the four­teenth and fif­teenth cen­turies, have hith­er­to received lit­tle schol­ar­ly atten­tion. Pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tions of crit­ics have unfavourably com­pared them to „clas­si­cal“ Íslendin­gasögur and for­nal­darsögur, lead­ing mod­ern audi­ences to project their expec­ta­tions onto nar­ra­tives that do not adhere to sim­ple tax­onomies and pre­con­ceived notions of genre. As „rogues“ with­in the canon, they chal­lenge the estab­lished notions of what makes an Íslendingasaga.
Based on a crit­i­cal appraisal of con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tions of canon and genre in saga lit­er­a­ture, this book offers a new read­ing of the rela­tion­ship between the indi­vid­ual, para­nor­mal, and social dimen­sions that form the foun­da­tion of these sagas. It draws on a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary approach, informed by per­spec­tives as diverse as „pos­si­ble worlds“ the­o­ry, gen­der stud­ies, and social his­to­ry. The „post-clas­si­cal“ sagas are not only read anew and inte­grat­ed into both their gener­ic and socio-his­tor­i­cal con­text; they are met on their own terms, allow­ing their fas­ci­nat­ing nar­ra­tives to speak for themselves.
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