Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Edited by: Jürg Glauser, Pernille Hermann and Stephen A. Mitchell

In the series De Gruyter Reference

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110431360

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About this book

In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic Studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-modern Nordic world (mainly the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, but including as well both earlier and later periods). Given that Memory Studies is an ever expanding critical strategy, the approximately eighty contributors in this volume also discuss the potential for future research in this area. Topics covered range from texts to performance to visual and other aspects of material culture, all approached from within an interdisciplinary framework. International specialists, coming from such relevant fields as archaeology, mythology, history of religion, folklore, history, law, art, literature, philology, language, and mediality, offer assessments on the relevance of Memory Studies to their disciplines and show it at work in case studies. Finally, this handbook demonstrates the various levels of culture where memory had a critical impact in the pre-modern North and how deeply embedded the role of memory is in the material itself.

• interdisciplinary volume on memory studies in Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia
• texts and images illustrating the role of memory studies for the Old Norse world
• entries and case studies by nearly 80 specialists representing a wide variety of fields

Author information

J. Glauser, University of Zurich, Switzerland, P. Hermann, Aarhus University, Denmark and S. Mitchell, Harvard University, USA.

Reviews

"Insgesamt gesehen, bietet dieser monumentale Band vielfach einen neuen Blick (etwa "Gendered memories", 144) auf die vormoderne Gedächtniskultur Skandinaviens einschließlich einiger Runen- und Gotländischer Bildsteine." Klaus Düwel in: Germanistik 59.3-4 (2019), 755-756

"This handbook represents an enormous undertaking for the editors and an extremely useful reference work on memory studies in pre-modern Scandinavian Studies. Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and those new to memory studies should find it helpful. Part III, with its beautiful color plates and cross-referenced selections from primary texts, may also prove perhaps particularly useful for teaching." Lesley Jacobs in: The Medieval Review 20.09.13

"The editors must be commended for conceiving of this enormous project and
bringing it to fruition. It is sure to prove an important reference text for not only
scholars of the pre-modern Nordic past, but to medievalists and memory studies
researchers more widely. Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies masterfully
demonstrates the breadth of memory studies being undertaken in our field, opening
new avenues for enquiry and collaboration." Matthew Firth in: Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 2019, Vol. 15, 139-141

„The Handbook reviewed here is itself a monumental work: a landmark, if not as yet a lieu de mémoire, in the study of ancient Scandinavia.” Rory McTurk in: Scandinavica 2/2020, https://www.scandinavica.net/article/24307-review-handbook-of-pre-modern-nordic-memory-studies-interdisciplinary-approaches

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Foreword Guðrún Nordal Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Preface and Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	XXI
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XXV
Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: An Introduction Jürg Glauser, Pernille Hermann and Stephen A. Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Disciplines, Traditions and Perspectives
Culture and Communication
I: 1 Rhetoric Jürg Glauser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
I: 2 Philosophy and Theology Anders Piltz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
I: 3 History of Religion Simon Nygaard and Jens Peter Schjødt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
I: 4 Mythology Pernille Hermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
I: 5 Folklore Studies Stephen A. Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
I: 6 Performance Studies Terry Gunnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
I: 7 Orality and Oral Theory Stephen A. Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Material Culture
I: 8 Archaeology Anders Andrén Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
I: 9 Late Iron Age Architecture Lydia Carstens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
I: 10 Medieval Architecture Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen and Henning Laugerud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
I: 11 Museology Silje Opdahl Mathisen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Philology
I: 12 Law Stefan Brink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
I: 13 Linguistics and Philology Michael Schulte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
I: 14 Material Philology Lena Rohrbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
I: 15 Runology Mats Malm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Aesthetics and Communication
I: 16 Literary Studies Jürg Glauser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
I: 17 Trauma Studies Torfi H. Tulinius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
I: 18 Media Studies Kate Heslop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
I: 19 Spatial Studies Lukas Rösli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
I: 20 Translation Studies Massimiliano Bampi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
I: 21 Visual Culture Henning Laugerud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Constructing the Past
I: 22 History Bjørn Bandlien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
I: 23 Medieval Latin Aidan Conti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
I: 24 Environmental Humanities Reinhard Hennig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Neighbouring Disciplines
I: 25 Anglo-Saxon Studies Antonina Harbus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
I: 26 Celtic Studies Sarah Künzler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
I: 27 Sámi Studies Thomas A. DuBois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
In-Dialogue
I: 28 Reception Studies Margaret Clunies Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
I: 29 Popular Culture Jón Karl Helgason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	370
I: 30 Contemporary Popular Culture Laurent Di Filippo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
Part II: Case Studies
Media: Mediality
II: 1 Orality Gísli Sigurðsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
II: 2 Writing and the Book Lena Rohrbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
II: 3 Manuscripts Lukas Rösli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	406
II: 4 Skin Sarah Künzler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	414
II: 5 Textual Performativity Sandra Schneeberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
II: 6 Text Editing Karl G. Johansson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
II: 7 Miracles Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
II: 8 Hagiography Ásdís Egilsdóttir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
Media: Visual modes
II: 9 Images Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
II: 10 Óðinn’s Ravens Stephen A. Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	454
II: 11 Ornamentation Anne-Sofie Gräslund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
II: 12 Animation Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471
II: 13 Marian Representations Karoline Kjesrud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
Media: Narrating the past
II: 14 Dialogues with the Past Vésteinn Ólason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
II: 15 Trauma Torfi H. Tulinius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
II: 16 Icelanders Abroad Yoav Tirosh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	502
II: 17 Folk Belief John Lindow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	508
II: 18 Emotions Carolyne Larrington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	514
II: 19 Remembering Gendered Vengeance Bjørn Bandlien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519
II: 20 Remembering the Future Slavica Ranković Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	526
Space: Nature
II: 21 Nature and Mythology Mathias Nordvig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	539
II: 22 Climate and Weather Bernadine McCreesh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	549
II: 23 Skyscape Gísli Sigurðsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	555
Space: Landscape
II: 24 Onomastics Stefan Brink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	565
II: 25 Cartography Rudolf Simek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	575
II: 26 Diaspora Judith Jesch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	583
II: 27 Pilgrimage Christian Krötzl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	594
II: 28 Pilgrimage – Gotland Tracey Sands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	601
II: 29 Landscape and Mounds Ann-Mari Hållans Stenholm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	607
II: 30 Saga Burial Mounds Lisa Bennett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	613
II: 31 Sites Torun Zachrisson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	620
II: 32 Memorial Landscapes Pernille Hermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	627
Action: Using specialist knowledge
II: 33 Skalds Russell Poole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	641
II: 34 Kennings Bergsveinn Birgisson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	646
II: 35 Charm Workers Stephen A. Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	655
II: 36 Mental Maps Gísli Sigurðsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	660
II: 37 Mnemonic Methods Pernille Hermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	666
Action: Performing commemoration
II: 38 Ritual Terry Gunnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	677
II: 39 Ritual Lament Joseph Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	687
II: 40 Memorial Toasts Lars Lönnroth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	695
II: 41 Women and Remembrance Practices Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	699
II: 42 Donation Culture Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	709
II: 43 Chain Dancing Tóta Árnadóttir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	716
II: 44 Neo-Paganism Mathias Nordvig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	727
Power: Designing beginnnings
II: 45 Origins Else Mundal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	737
II: 46 Genealogies Úlfar Bragason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	744
II: 47 Religion and Gender Sofie Vanherpen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	750
II: 48 Strategies of Remembering Laura Sonja Wamhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	756
II: 49 Remembering Origins Verena Höfig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	762
Power: National memories
II: 50 Danish Perspectives Pernille Hermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	771
II: 51 Danish Perspectives – N.F.S. Grundtvig Sophie Bønding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	782
II: 52 Faroese Perspectives Malan Marnersdóttir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	788
II: 53 Greenlandic Perspectives Kirsten Thisted Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	798
II: 54 Icelandic Perspectives Simon Halink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	805
II: 55 Norwegian Perspectives Terje Gansum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	811
II: 56 Norwegian Perspectives – Heimskringla Jon Gunnar Jørgensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	818
II: 57 Swedish Perspectives Stephen A. Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	824
II: 58 Swedish Perspectives Anna Wallette and Anna Wallette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	834
II: 59 Balto-Finnic Perspectives Thomas A. DuBois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	841
Power: Envisioning the northern past
II: 60 Canadian Perspectives Birgitta Wallace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	855
II: 61 U.S. Perspectives Stephen A. Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	866
II: 62 North American Perspectives – Suggested Runic Monuments Henrik Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	876
II: 63 Irish Perspectives Joseph Falaky Nagy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	885
II: 64 British Perspectives Richard Cole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	891
II: 65 The Northern Isles Stephen A. Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	899
II: 66 French Perspectives Pierre-Brice Stahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	908
II: 67 German Perspectives Roland Scheel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	913
II: 68 Polish Perspectives Jakub Morawiec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	921
II: 69 Russian Perspectives Ulrich Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	927
II: 70 Russian Perspectives – Viking Barbora Davidková Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	933
Part III: Texts and Images
Einleitung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	943
Remembering the Past and Foreseeing the Future: Mnemonic genres and classical Old Norse memory texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	945
Media of Memory and Forgetting: Oral and written transmission of memories in prologues and colophones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	965
Media of Memory and Forgetting: Figures of remembering and forgetting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1007
Memory in Action: Memory strategies and memory scenes in sagas, poetry, laws, and theological and historical texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1021
Runic Inscriptions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1065
Colour Plates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1079
Select Bibliography of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1103
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1113
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1117

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: 2 volumes
Audience: Scholars interested in Memory Studies, Scandinavien Studies and Old Norse Studies; mediaevalists
Pages
- Front matter: 32
- Main content: 1120
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 75
- Coloured Illustrations: 25
Keywords: Scandinavia; Old Norse literature; mediality

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