IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 206: The Reception and Use of Medieval Icelandic Texts after the Reformation, I
Monday 3 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Sheryl McDonald Werronen, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet |
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Moderator/Chair: | Sheryl McDonald Werronen, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet |
Paper 206-a | Icelandic Manuscripts in 18th-Century Ireland: The Collection of Vicar James Johnstone (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 206-b | The Early Transmission of Hrómundar saga Gripssonar (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 206-c | The Postmedieval Manuscripts of Trójumanna saga: The Function and Socio-Literary Place of the Troy Story in Early Modern Iceland (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Abstract | While still not as well-studied as it deserves or as other fields within Old Norse-Icelandic studies, an increasing amount of research is being done within the field of post-medieval manuscript production and scribal practise. These two complementary sessions will highlight some of the current projects based at the Arnamagnæan Institute in Copenhagen and further afield, with a particular focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, when medieval texts and old manuscripts were both actively sought out and copied anew by the elites in Iceland and Scandinavia. |