IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1130: Riddarasögur: Icelandic Romances

Wednesday 14 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	The Viking Society for Northern Research
Organiser:	Alaric Hall, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
Moderator/Chair:	Cathy Hume, School of English, University of Leeds
Paper 1130-a	Moral Values and Semantic Space in Late Medieval Icelandic Romances (Language: English) Werner Schäfke, Institut für Vergleichende Germanische Philologie & Skandinavistik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities
Paper 1130-b	In Search of a Bride: Travel and Geography in Nitida saga (Language: English) Sheryl McDonald Werronen, School of English, University of Leeds Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities
Paper 1130-c	An Interesting Paper about a Boring Saga: The Saga of Sigrgarðr the Valiant (Language: English) Alaric Hall, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities
Abstract	Popular romance, long an oxymoron, is once again becoming popular, and medieval Icelandic examples of the form are no exception. In this session, Werner Schäfke looks across a range of texts to examine how we can read the sagas as culturally significant documents; Sheryl McDonald considers how the geographically-conscious Nitida saga, written in Iceland, represents different world regions, and how travel acts as a driving force behind its plot; and Alaric Hall touts the importance of close readings of individual romance sagas as distinctive literary products, while attending to intertexts and manuscript variation.