Dreams of Fame and Honor. Late Medieval Icelandic Prose Fiction 1400-1700

Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

Abstract

The conference is dedicated to the closely related Icelandic genres of the original riddarasögur and viking romances. Together the two constitute a large group of narrative texts, the late medieval Icelandic romances, that developed in this form since the Middle Ages and were productive until modern times. In fact, they not only encompass a multitude of works but have also often widely been orally transmitted. The topic range of presentations is designed to broaden access to the examined saga genres and to give them overall more adequate and palpable definition as genres. The late medieval Icelandic romances will be discussed, and their position in literary history more clearly thought out, from different perspectives of varying philological fields, according to philological and socio-historical criteria as well as criteria relating to the history of mentalities.

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Contact

Dr. Jens Eike Schnall

Skandinavisches Seminar
Platz der Universität 3
D-79085 Freiburg

phone: +49 761 203-3365
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e-mail: eike.schnall@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de