IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 328: Sagas of Icelanders
Monday 9 July 2007, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Viking Society for Northern Research |
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Organiser: | Alison Finlay, Department of English & Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London |
Moderator/Chair: | Hannah Burrows, Department of English & Related Literature, University of York |
Paper 328-a | Changing Literary Uses of Pagan Gods in the Sagas of Icelanders (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Pagan Religions |
Paper 328-b | Fantasy in Njal’s Saga: History as Spectral Past (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History |
Abstract | This session addresses a range of aspects of the Sagas of Icelanders, in particular their development over time. The investigation of the changing representation of the pagan gods and the establishment of a nicknaming tradition build on the hypothesis of a literary development of this genre in the course of the 13th century, while the paper on Njáls Saga positions the sagas temporally by treating the attitude to the past, notably the pagan past, within the sagas themselves. |