Unwanted

doi:10.5771/9783831676903

Unwanted

Neglected Approaches, Characters, and Texts in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Studies

Series: Münchner Nordistische Studien

Volume 50 Published 2022

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doi.org/10.5771/9783831676903
ISBN print: 978-3-8316-4942-6
ISBN online: 978-3-8316-7690-3
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Zusammenfassung

The 9 essays collected in this volume are the result of a workshop for international doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Studies held at the Institute for Nordic Philology (LMU) in Munich in December 2018. The contributors focus on ›unwanted‹, illicit, neglected, and marginalised elements in saga literature and research on it. The chapters cover a wide range of intra-textual phenomena, narrative strategies, and understudied aspects of individual texts and subgenres. The analyses demonstrate the importance of deviance and transgression as literary characteristics of saga narration, as well as the discursive parameters that have been dominant in Saga Studies. The aim of this collection is to highlight the productiveness of developing modified methodological approaches to the sagas and their study, with a starting point in narratological considerations. Andreas Schmidt and Daniela Hahn are postdoctoral researchers, reading and teaching Old Icelandic literature from narratological perspectives. Both completed their PhDs in Scandinavian Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Following Bad Boys and Wicked Women (Münchner Nordistische Studien 27), this is their second co-edited collection of essays.

Biographische Informationen

Andreas Schmidt and Daniela Hahn are postdoctoral researchers, reading and teaching Old Icelandic literature from narratological perspectives. Both completed their PhDs in Scandinavian Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Following Bad Boys and Wicked Women (Münchner Nordistische Studien 27), this is their second co-edited collection of essays.

Reihe

Münchner Nordistische Studien - Band 50

Schlagworte

Tommy Wiseau ævintýr Callinius saga Skarpheðinn Njálsson Arons saga Hjörleifssonar Sturlunga saga Kings’ Sagas Króka-Refs saga Ljósvetninga saga Njáls saga

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1–4 Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis 1–4
5–5 Preface Andreas Schmidt, Daniela Hahn Andreas Schmidt, Daniela Hahn 5–5
6–27 Unwanted: An Introduction Andreas Schmidt, Daniela Hahn Andreas Schmidt, Daniela Hahn 6–27
28–56 Let the Right Skald In: Unwanted Guests in Sagas of Poets Alexander J. Wilson Alexander J. Wilson 28–56
57–86 A Friend in níð: On the Narrative Display of Gender and níð in Njáls saga Sebastian Thoma Sebastian Thoma 57–86
87–106 Skarpheðinn Njálsson: An Agent of Transgression or a Youth gone Wild? Anita Sauckel Anita Sauckel 87–106
107–142 Unwanted Hero, Praised Outcast: The Outlaw Motif in Arons saga Hjörleifssonar and Sturlunga saga Lucie Korecká Lucie Korecká 107–142
143–179 Outlawed Bears and Trollish Foster-Parents: Exploring the Social Dimension of the ›Post-Classical‹ Sagas of Icelanders Rebecca Merkelbach Rebecca Merkelbach 143–179
180–205 ›Tasteless Additions‹: Post-Medieval Textual Variation in Króka-Refs saga as Audience Reception Zuzana Stankovitsová Zuzana Stankovitsová 180–205
206–242 Tearing a Text Apart – Audience Participation and Authorial Intent in Ljósvetninga saga and Tommy Wiseau’s The Room Yoav Tirosh Yoav Tirosh 206–242
243–271 How to Scare Away the Devil. A Frenchman, the Devil, a Jew ,and a Cunning Disguise in an Icelandic ævintýr known as Callinius saga Mathias Kruse Mathias Kruse 243–271
272–307 »A waste of effort«? Towards a Reassessment of the Old Norse Kings’ Sagas (With a Comment on a ›Living Handbook of Old Norse Studies‹) Jan Alexander von Nahl Jan Alexander von Nahl 272–307
308–310 The Authors 308–310
311–314 Index 311–314

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