Add to ORKGBased on the assumption that the longstanding discussion about history/fiction has exhausted itself, this article suggests an alternative approach to the sagas of Icelanders. It approaches the sagas from a memory perspective and illustrates how two concepts of memory: cultural memory and artificial memory, provide us with useful methodological tools for opening new dimensions of saga narratives.
International audienceThe Viking era is a comun subject in today’s literature and popular culture. T...
The corpus of sagas known under the genre fornaldarsögur has appeared sporadically within academia f...
The Vikings are an excellent example of the significance of cultural memory: from post-Viking-Age so...
This dissertation focuses on two distinct areas of study that do not have a predetermined or necessa...
The Icelandic sagas can be read and interpreted in many ways. This article examines the sagas both a...
After providing English translations of the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, Ketils saga hængs and Gríms s...
Sagas appeared on Scandinavian scholars' horizons around the seventeenth century, when their narrati...
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the meaning of sagas in a European context by analyzing cer...
Straipsnyje keliama islandų sagų, kaip istorijos šaltinio, patikimumo problema. Susiklosčiusi istori...
Students of early Scandinavian literature and folklore face analogous problems when dealing with ora...
The study is focused on the Old Norse "contemporary sagas" (texts composed with a short time distanc...
This thesis examine how farm-dwellers in the Mälaren region during the late Iron Age and early Middl...
ABSTRACT: This article investigates Snorri Sturluson’s Edda seen in light of medieval memory theory....
Fiction may be imbued with a truth to life which is equal to if not superior in value to any factual...
This thesis explores the historical writing in the two Norse-Icelandic kings’ sagas Morkinskinna and...
International audienceThe Viking era is a comun subject in today’s literature and popular culture. T...
The corpus of sagas known under the genre fornaldarsögur has appeared sporadically within academia f...
The Vikings are an excellent example of the significance of cultural memory: from post-Viking-Age so...
This dissertation focuses on two distinct areas of study that do not have a predetermined or necessa...
The Icelandic sagas can be read and interpreted in many ways. This article examines the sagas both a...
After providing English translations of the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, Ketils saga hængs and Gríms s...
Sagas appeared on Scandinavian scholars' horizons around the seventeenth century, when their narrati...
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the meaning of sagas in a European context by analyzing cer...
Straipsnyje keliama islandų sagų, kaip istorijos šaltinio, patikimumo problema. Susiklosčiusi istori...
Students of early Scandinavian literature and folklore face analogous problems when dealing with ora...
The study is focused on the Old Norse "contemporary sagas" (texts composed with a short time distanc...
This thesis examine how farm-dwellers in the Mälaren region during the late Iron Age and early Middl...
ABSTRACT: This article investigates Snorri Sturluson’s Edda seen in light of medieval memory theory....
Fiction may be imbued with a truth to life which is equal to if not superior in value to any factual...
This thesis explores the historical writing in the two Norse-Icelandic kings’ sagas Morkinskinna and...
International audienceThe Viking era is a comun subject in today’s literature and popular culture. T...
The corpus of sagas known under the genre fornaldarsögur has appeared sporadically within academia f...
The Vikings are an excellent example of the significance of cultural memory: from post-Viking-Age so...