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Title:

Minni and Muninn : memory in Medieval Nordic culture / edited by Pernille Hermann, Stephen A. Mitchell, and Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir.

Publisher:

Brepols,

Copyright Date:

c2014

Description:

x, 241 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Collective memory--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
Memory--History--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
Old Norse literature--History and criticism.
Memory in literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Historiography--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.

Other Authors:

Hermann, Pernille, editor.
Mitchell, Stephen A. (Stephen Arthur), 1951- editor.
Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-230) and index.

Contents:

Foreword / Jürg Glauser -- Introduction: Minni and Muninn-memory in medieval Nordic culture / Pernille Hermann, Stephen A. Mitchell, and Arnórsdóttir -- Part 1. Memory and narrations -- Key aspects of memory and remembering in Old Norse-Icelandic literature / Pernille Hermann -- Memory and Old Norse mythology / John Lindow -- Authentication of poetic memory in Old Norse Skaldic verse / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Minni and the rhetoric of memory in Eddie, Skaldie, and Runic texts / Kate Heslop -- Autobiographical memory in medielval Scandinavia and amongst the Kievan Rus' / Russell Poole - Part 2. Memory and history -- Memoria Normannica / Rudolf Simek -- The mythological past: memory in medieval and early modern Gotland / Stephen A. Mitchell -- Constructing a past to suit the present: Sturla þórðarson on Conflicts and alliances with King Haraldr hárfagri / Gísli Sigurdsson -- Minnunga men: the usage of old knowledgeable men in legal cases / Stefan Brink -- Legal culture and historical memory in medieval and early modern Iceland / Agness Arnórsdóttir.

Series:

Acta scandinavica ; v. 4

ISBN:

2503549101 (hd.bd.)
9782503549101 (hd.bd.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)874531383

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)