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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 102: The Late Medieval and Early Modern Life of Romances: Specifically, Icelandic Ones

Monday 11 July 2011, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Leeds Studies in English
Organiser:Alaric Hall, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
Moderator/Chair:Alaric Hall, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
Paper 102-aDifferent Scribes, Different Stories: Nitida Saga as an Example of Textual Reworking in the Post-Medieval Period
(Language: English)
Sheryl McDonald Werronen, School of English, University of Leeds
Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 102-bDifferent Ways of Telling a Story: Form and Function in Late Medieval Icelandic Popular Literature
(Language: English)
Haukur Þorgeirsson, University of Iceland, Reykjavík
Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Literacy and Orality
Paper 102-cYngvars saga víðförla and the Genesis of Saga Writing in Iceland
(Language: English)
Haki Antonsson, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London
Abstract

Late medieval Iceland was one of Europe's hotbeds of romance-writing - and offers a uniquely rich case study of the ongoing transmission of medieval romance into the early modern period. This session will include literary readings, investigations of late medieval and early modern manuscript transmission and its significance for understanding the reception of romances, and the interplay between prose and verse in romance form.