Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies

Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies

Interdisciplinary Approaches

In: De Gruyter Reference

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

De Gruyter | 2019

DOI: 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

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

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