The Rewriting of Njáls Saga

The Rewriting of Njáls Saga

Author: Jón Karl Helgason

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9781853594571

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The Rewriting of Njáls saga concerns itself with the process which enables literary texts to cross cultures and endure history. Through six interrelated case studies, Jón Karl Helgason focuses on the reception of Njáls saga, the most distinguished of the Icelandic sagas, in Britain, the United States, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, between 1861 and 1945. The editions and translations in question claim to represent a medieval narrative to their audience, but Helgason emphasises how these texts simultaneously reflect the rewriters' contemporary ideas about race, culture, politics and poetics. Introducing the principles of comparative Translation Studies to the field of Medieval Literature, Helgason's book identifies the dialogue between literary (re)production and society.


Njals Saga and Its Christian Background: A Study of Narrative Method. Germania Latina VIII

Njals Saga and Its Christian Background: A Study of Narrative Method. Germania Latina VIII

Author: A. Hamer

Publisher: Peeters

Published: 2014-12-31

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9789042930896

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Njals saga is universally recognised as the greatest and most complex of all the sagas of Icelanders (Islendingasogur). The originality with which the writer composed his narrative has led to its being likened to a novel created by an author who certainly used sources, although identifying which parts of the saga descend from oral and which from written sources has proved difficult. The 'Christian background' of the title of this study refers to the ecclesiastical texts (including Scripture and its exegesis, church liturgy and the liturgical year, and hagiographical and apocryphal writings) which, it is argued, were used by the author of Njals saga as he both created a bipartite structure, using familiar Christian metaphors to help unify the work; and developed his central thematic concern: that good legal judgement depends upon justice and mercy acting together, as in divine judgement. It is this which finally redeems Skarphedinn Njalsson.


Oral Art Forms and Their Passage Into Writing

Oral Art Forms and Their Passage Into Writing

Author: Else Mundal

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 8763505045

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The present collection examines the complex interrelationship between the oral and the written and the problems of textualisation.


Njál's Saga

Njál's Saga

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Publisher:

Published: 1955

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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The story of Burnt Njal, the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and consellor.


Njal's Saga

Njal's Saga

Author:

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13:

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An Icelandic family saga, probably from the 13th century, in a modern translation.


National Heroes and National Identities

National Heroes and National Identities

Author: Linas Eriksonas

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9789052012001

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This book investigates the concept of the heroic, questions what it is that makes the national hero an indispensable appendage to any possible interpretation of national identity, and asks why scholars stop short before coming to terms with this elusive phenomenon. It finds answers by following heroic traditions in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The book argues that heroic traditions - prevailing trends in situating heroes in national history - owe much to the early modern state. Both national heroes and the nation state had been conceived with a similar moral political mindset that looked for new ways to identify sources for commonality. The confluence of political theory and Realpolitik attested to three classical types of polities, i.e. civitas popularis (democracy), regnum (kingship), and optimatium (aristocracy), as found at that time in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania respectively. The author shows the varied impact these patterns had on heroic traditions. The long record of national heroes in Scotland is explained as a vestige of the legacy of civic humanism, the continuing traditions of the heroic king-lines in Norway are seen as a result of long-standing absolutism, while the belated arrival of national heroes in Lithuania is excused by the country's aristocratic if at times oligarchic past.


Modern Paganism in World Cultures

Modern Paganism in World Cultures

Author: Michael Strmiska

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

Published: 2005-12-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1851096086

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A study of Neopagan religious movements in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe where people increasingly turn to ancestral religions, not as amusement or matters of passing interest, but in an effort to practice those religions as they were before the advent of Christianity.