IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 509: Views from the Outside: Representations of Iceland in Medieval and Modern Literature
Tuesday 8 July 2008, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Brill Academic Publishers |
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| Organiser: | Jude Mackley, Independent Scholar, Northampton |
| Moderator/Chair: | Glyn Burgess, School of Cultures, Languages & Area Studies, University of Liverpool |
| Paper 509-a | The Reception of Early Irish Descriptions of Iceland (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 509-b | Disguising Natural Exotica: St Brendan's Travels to 'Iceland' (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 509-c | 'This most romantic of deserts': William Morris and the 19th-Century Icelandic Pilgrimage (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | This session consists of representations of Iceland from three approaches: The first examines the reception of accounts of voyages made to Iceland by British clergy in the late 8th century, drawing from Latin, Irish and Scandinavian literature; the second discusses how recent scholarship suggests that St Brendan travelled to Iceland on his voyage to paradise and how descriptions of natural exotica are veiled in supernatural terms; the third considers the influence of the sagas and the icelandic landscape on the writings of William Morris in the wider context of the 19th-century's fascination with the literature and topography of the Great Old North. |