Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies by Glauser, Jürg -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: An Introduction Part I: Disciplines, Traditions and Perspectives

Culture and Communication

I: 1 Rhetoric: Jürg Glauser I: 2 Philosophy and Theology: Anders Piltz I: 3 History of Religion: Simon Nygaard and Jens Peter Schjødt I: 4 Mythology: Pernille Hermann I: 5 Folklore Studies: Stephen A. Mitchell I: 6 Performance Studies: Terry Gunnell I: 7 Orality and Oral Theory: Stephen A. Mitchell

Material Culture

I: 8 Archaeology: Anders Andrén I: 9 Late Iron Age Architecture: Lydia Carstens I: 10 Medieval Architecture: Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen and Henning Laugerud I: 11 Museology: Silje Opdahl Mathisen

Philology

I: 12 Law: Stefan Brink I: 13 Linguistics and Philology: Michael Schulte I: 14 Material Philology: Lena Rohrbach I: 15 Runology: Mats Malm

Aesthetics and Communication

I: 16 Literary Studies: Jürg Glauser I: 17 Trauma Studies: Torfi H. Tulinius I: 18 Media Studies: Kate Heslop I: 19 Spatial Studies: Lukas Rösli I: 20 Translation Studies: Massimiliano Bampi I: 21 Visual Culture: Henning Laugerud

Constructing the Past

I: 22 History: Bjørn Bandlien I: 23 Medieval Latin: Aidan Conti I: 24 Environmental Humanities: Reinhard Hennig

Neighbouring Disciplines

I: 25 Anglo-Saxon Studies: Antonina Harbus I: 26 Celtic Studies: Sarah Künzler I: 27 Sámi Studies: Thomas A. DuBois

In-Dialogue

I: 28 Reception Studies: Margaret Clunies Ross I: 29 Popular Culture: Jón Karl Helgason I: 30 Contemporary Popular Culture: Laurent Di Filippo

Part II: Case Studies

Media: Mediality

II: 1 Orality: Gísli Sigurðsson II: 2 Writing and the Book: Lena Rohrbach II: 3 Manuscripts: Lukas Rösli II: 4 Skin: Sarah Künzler II: 5 Textual Performativity: Sandra Schneeberger II: 6 Text Editing: Karl G. Johansson II: 7 Miracles: Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir II: 8 Hagiography: Ásdís Egilsdóttir

Media: Visual modes

II: 9 Images: Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen II: 10 Óðinn’s Ravens: Stephen A. Mitchell II: 11 Ornamentation: Anne-Sofie Gräslund II: 12 Animation: Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen II: 13 Marian Representations: Karoline Kjesrud

Media: Narrating the past

II: 14 Dialogues with the Past: Vésteinn Ólason II: 15 Trauma: Torfi H. Tulinius II: 16 Icelanders Abroad: Yoav Tirosh II: 17 Folk Belief: John Lindow II: 18 Emotions: Carolyne Larrington II: 19 Remembering Gendered Vengeance: Bjørn Bandlien II: 20 Remembering the Future: Slavica Ranković

Space: Nature

II: 21 Nature and Mythology: Mathias Nordvig II: 22 Climate and Weather: Bernadine McCreesh II: 23 Skyscape: Gísli Sigurðsson

Space: Landscape

II: 24 Onomastics: Stefan Brink II: 25 Cartography: Rudolf Simek II: 26 Diaspora: Judith Jesch II: 27 Pilgrimage: Christian Krötzl II: 28 Pilgrimage – Gotland: Tracey Sands II: 29 Landscape and Mounds: Ann-Mari Hållans Stenholm II: 30 Saga Burial Mounds: Lisa Bennett II: 31 Sites: Torun Zachrisson II: 32 Memorial Landscapes: Pernille Hermann

Action: Using specialist knowledge

II: 33 Skalds: Russell Poole II: 34 Kennings: Bergsveinn Birgisson II: 35 Charm Workers: Stephen A. Mitchell II: 36 Mental Maps: Gísli Sigurðsson II: 37 Mnemonic Methods: Pernille Hermann

Action: Performing commemoration

II: 38 Ritual: Terry Gunnell II: 39 Ritual Lament: Joseph Harris II: 40 Memorial Toasts: Lars Lönnroth II: 41 Women and Remembrance Practices: Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir II: 42 Donation Culture: Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir II: 43 Chain Dancing: Tóta Árnadóttir II: 44 Neo-Paganism: Mathias Nordvig

Power: Designing beginnnings

II: 45 Origins: Else Mundal II: 46 Genealogies: Úlfar Bragason II: 47 Religion and Gender: Sofie Vanherpen II: 48 Strategies of Remembering: Laura Sonja Wamhoff II: 49 Remembering Origins: Verena Höfig

Power: National memories

II: 50 Danish Perspectives: Pernille Hermann II: 51 Danish Perspectives – N.F.S. Grundtvig: Sophie Bønding II: 52 Faroese Perspectives: Malan Marnersdóttir II: 53 Greenlandic Perspectives: Kirsten Thisted II: 54 Icelandic Perspectives: Simon Halink II: 55 Norwegian Perspectives: Terje Gansum II: 56 Norwegian Perspectives – Heimskringla: Jon Gunnar Jørgensen II: 57 Swedish Perspectives: Stephen A. Mitchell II: 58 Swedish Perspectives – Rudbeck: Anna Wallette II: 59 Balto-Finnic Perspectives: Thomas A. DuBois

Power: Envisioning the northern past

II: 60 Canadian Perspectives: Birgitta Wallace II: 61 U.S. Perspectives: Stephen A. Mitchell II: 62 North American Perspectives – Suggested Runic Monuments: Henrik Williams II: 63 Irish Perspectives: Joseph Falaky Nagy II: 64 British Perspectives: Richard Cole II: 65 The Northern Isles: Stephen A. Mitchell II: 66 French Perspectives: Pierre-Brice Stahl II: 67 German Perspectives: Roland Scheel II: 68 Polish Perspectives: Jakub Morawiec II: 69 Russian Perspectives: Ulrich Schmid II: 70 Russian Perspectives – Viking: Barbora Davidková

Part III: Texts and Images

Remembering the Past and Foreseeing the Future: Mnemonic genres and classical Old Norse memory texts

III: 1 The Seeress’s Prophecy – an iconic Old Norse-Icelandic memory poem III: 2 Memory and poetry in Egil’s Saga III: 3 Dómaldi’s death – a memorable sacrifice in The Saga of the Ynglings III: 4 Ekphrasis and pictorial memory in the House-poem

Media of Memory and Forgetting: Oral and written transmission of memories in prologues and colophones

III: 5 Personal memories and founding myths in The Book of the Icelanders III: 6 Writing as a means against oblivion in Hunger-stirrer III: 7 Male and female voices in oral transmission and memory in The Saga of Óláf Tryggvason III: 8 Medieval mnemonic theory and national history in Saxo Grammaticus’s preface to The History of the Danes III: 9 Commemorating the achievements of the ancient kings in Sven Aggesen’s A Short History of the Kings of Denmark III: 10 Remembering and transmitting for future generations in the prologue to A History of Norway III: 11 Theodoricus Monachus filling up memory gaps in An Account of the Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings III: 12 Writing and memory in The King’s Mirror III: 13 The prologue to Heimskringla: Snorri Sturluson comments on his sources III: 14 Stories fixed in memory in The Saga of King Sverrir III: 15 The prologue to The Saga of the Sturlungs and the transmission of contemporary sagawriting III: 16 Remembering old tales from foreign countries in Strengleikar III: 17 Memorising between storytelling and writing in the prologue to The Saga of Thidrek of Bern III: 18 Remembering and the creation of The Saga of Yngvar the Far-traveler

Media of Memory and Forgetting: Figures of remembering and forgetting

III: 19 Eddic mythological poetry: Birds of memory and birds of oblivion III: 20 Desire, love, and forgetting in eddic heroic poetry III: 21 Memory’s bodily location in The Prose Edda III: 22 Embodied and disembodied memory in The Saga of Saint Jón III: 23 The mind’s eye in The Old Norwegian Book of Homilies

Memory in Action: Memory strategies and memory scenes in sagas, poetry, laws, and theological and historical texts

III: 24 Memorial toasts in The Saga of Hákon the Good III: 25 Old poems and memorial stones in The Separate Saga of Óláfr the Saint III: 26 The remembered glory of Lejre in A Short History of the Kings of Denmark III: 27 Remembering and rhetoric in the Saga of Saint Óláfr III: 28 Poets as eye witnesses and memory bearers in The Saga of Saint Óláfr III: 29 Reciting and remembering disastrous poetry: Gísli Súrsson’s fatal stanza III: 30 Archaeology and oral tradition: The hero’s skull and bones in Egil’s Saga III: 31 Memory, death and spatial anchoring in Njal’s Saga III: 32 Scenes of competitive memory in Morkinskinna III: 33 The curse of forgetting in Gautrek’s Saga III: 34 How to remember the outcome of a law-suit in The Saga of the Confederates III: 35 Men with good memory in the Laws of Hälsingland III: 36 Re-membering a lost deed in the Stockholm Land Registry III: 37 Establishing the remembrance of a king across the sea in The Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason III: 38 Remembering and venerating – the death and funeral of Saint Þorlákr as staged memory scenes III: 39 Memorialising a king in The Saga of Hákon Hákonarson III: 40 The knight and the lily-petal in An Old Swedish Legendary III: 41 The soul and memory in The Cloister of the Soul III: 42 Memory and revenge in The Chronicle of Duke Erik

Runic Inscriptions

III: 43 Commemorating the reign of King Haraldr on the Jelling stone III: 44 Memory’s role in the Rök stone III: 45 A runic miscellany of memory, memorials and remembering

Colour Plates Select Bibliography of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies Contributors Index

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