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Books by Ingibjörg Eyþórsdóttir
by Ármann Jakobsson, Mariusz Mayburd, Andrea Maraschi, Marion Poilvez, Sarah Bienko Eriksen, Anna Katharina Heiniger, Sean Lawing, Daniel Remein, Andrew McGillivray, Sandra Straubhaar, Arngrímur Vídalín, Zuzana Stankovitsova, Rebecca Merkelbach, Christopher Crocker, Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir, Ingibjörg Eyþórsdóttir, Martina Ceolin, Védís Ragnheiðardóttir, and Yoav Tirosh
Published in March 2020, in the series Northern Medieval World: on the Margins of Europe. This... more Published in March 2020, in the series Northern Medieval World: on the Margins of Europe.
This anthology of 23 articles by Old Norse scholars from 10 countries offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North.
This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.
Papers by Ingibjörg Eyþórsdóttir
De Gruyter eBooks, Mar 23, 2020
Ritið, 2018
In the Icelandic traditional ballads from medieval and post-medieval times, wo-men and their voic... more In the Icelandic traditional ballads from medieval and post-medieval times, wo-men and their voices are very prominent, while stories of male heroes were rather portrayed in rímur. The language is very unusual and shows signs of translation, formulas are frequently used, and the mode of narration is objective and clear. Love is a common subject, and so is violence, often gender-based and sexual. In the article the background of these ballads is discussed shortly and their emergence in Icelandic oral culture and later its literature, as they were recorded by educated men, from nameless sources, most probably women. Seven ballads are then used to show different aspects of violence within the genre. All are highly dramatic, and their subject is harsh: hardship, rape, birth and loss of children, and sometimes the victims take things into their own hands and avenge in a graphic way. How ballads that tell such terrible tales, can have been sung and danced to at joyous gatherings, is an in...
Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400
Ritið, tímarit hugvísindastofnunar, http://hugvis.hi.is/ritid., 2018
Sagnadansar varðveittir á Íslandi skera sig talsvert frá öðrum þarlendum kveðskap. Því veldur aða... more Sagnadansar varðveittir á Íslandi skera sig talsvert frá öðrum þarlendum kveðskap. Því veldur aðallega tvennt. Annars vegar eru þeir augljóslega innfluttir og lítt lagaðir að íslenskum aðstæðum, tungumáli eða bragreglum og hafa því yfir sér framandlegan og oft mjög ljóðrænan blæ og hins vegar tengist efni þeirra að miklu leyti samskiptum kynjanna: ástum, svikum og ekki síst ofbeldi. Sjónarhorn kvæðanna er í flestum tilvikum kvennanna og sögu- samúðin liggur sömuleiðis oftast hjá þeim. Nokkur kvæði sem öðru fremur fjalla um kynbundið og kynferðislegt ofbeldi eru aðalumfjöllunarefni þessarar greinar.
by Ármann Jakobsson, Mariusz Mayburd, Andrea Maraschi, Marion Poilvez, Sarah Bienko Eriksen, Anna Katharina Heiniger, Sean Lawing, Daniel Remein, Andrew McGillivray, Sandra Straubhaar, Arngrímur Vídalín, Zuzana Stankovitsova, Rebecca Merkelbach, Christopher Crocker, Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir, Ingibjörg Eyþórsdóttir, Martina Ceolin, Védís Ragnheiðardóttir, and Yoav Tirosh
Published in March 2020, in the series Northern Medieval World: on the Margins of Europe. This... more Published in March 2020, in the series Northern Medieval World: on the Margins of Europe.
This anthology of 23 articles by Old Norse scholars from 10 countries offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North.
This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.
De Gruyter eBooks, Mar 23, 2020
Ritið, 2018
In the Icelandic traditional ballads from medieval and post-medieval times, wo-men and their voic... more In the Icelandic traditional ballads from medieval and post-medieval times, wo-men and their voices are very prominent, while stories of male heroes were rather portrayed in rímur. The language is very unusual and shows signs of translation, formulas are frequently used, and the mode of narration is objective and clear. Love is a common subject, and so is violence, often gender-based and sexual. In the article the background of these ballads is discussed shortly and their emergence in Icelandic oral culture and later its literature, as they were recorded by educated men, from nameless sources, most probably women. Seven ballads are then used to show different aspects of violence within the genre. All are highly dramatic, and their subject is harsh: hardship, rape, birth and loss of children, and sometimes the victims take things into their own hands and avenge in a graphic way. How ballads that tell such terrible tales, can have been sung and danced to at joyous gatherings, is an in...
Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400
Ritið, tímarit hugvísindastofnunar, http://hugvis.hi.is/ritid., 2018
Sagnadansar varðveittir á Íslandi skera sig talsvert frá öðrum þarlendum kveðskap. Því veldur aða... more Sagnadansar varðveittir á Íslandi skera sig talsvert frá öðrum þarlendum kveðskap. Því veldur aðallega tvennt. Annars vegar eru þeir augljóslega innfluttir og lítt lagaðir að íslenskum aðstæðum, tungumáli eða bragreglum og hafa því yfir sér framandlegan og oft mjög ljóðrænan blæ og hins vegar tengist efni þeirra að miklu leyti samskiptum kynjanna: ástum, svikum og ekki síst ofbeldi. Sjónarhorn kvæðanna er í flestum tilvikum kvennanna og sögu- samúðin liggur sömuleiðis oftast hjá þeim. Nokkur kvæði sem öðru fremur fjalla um kynbundið og kynferðislegt ofbeldi eru aðalumfjöllunarefni þessarar greinar.