IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1342: Old Norse Proverbial Wisdom
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 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: | Alison Finlay, Department of English & Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London |
Paper 1342-a | The Fool Monty: The Old Icelandic Fool as Agent of Cultural Memory (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
Paper 1342-b | What's in a Proverb?: Norse Axiomatic Wisdom from Hávamál to the Margins of Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1342-c | Blaming Óðinn: A fornaldarsaga Topos (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
Abstract | This session addresses the subject of folk and proverbial wisdom across Old Icelandic literary genres, through the figure of the medieval fool in kings sagas and þættir, proverbial formulae used for blaming Óðinn in fornaldarsögur, and the origins and context of proverbial marginalia in the margins of a 16th-century poetry manuscript. |