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Lost in Translation: Adapting Supernatural Concepts from Old French Chivalric Literature into the Old Norse riddarasǫgur

Lummer, Felix (University of Iceland, Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloritics, 2021-02)

While the post-millennial research of Old Norse literature saw an increased interest in the study of translated riddarasǫgur, the scholarly focus in these studies rests, for the main part, on the effects of translation, the role and representation of ...
The Multiple Facets of Time: Reckoning, Representing, and Understanding Time in Medieval Iceland

Ceolin, Martina (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2020-08)

This work investigates the multivalent and dynamic portrayal of time in a selection of early Old Icelandic texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The main objective is to map out the representations of time in terms of the patterns conveyed, ...
On the Receiving End: The Role of Scholarship, Memory, and Genre in Constructing Ljósvetninga saga

Tirosh, Yoav (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2019-10)

Ljósvetninga saga takes place in Northern Iceland during the tenth and eleventh centuries and focuses on the political maneuverings of the chieftain Guðmundr inn ríki Eyjólfsson and his son Eyjólfr. Most of the academic debate surrounding Ljósvetninga ...

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