IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 306: The Reception and Use of Medieval Icelandic Texts after the Reformation, II
Monday 3 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Sheryl McDonald Werronen, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet |
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Moderator/Chair: | Matthew Driscoll, Irish & Celtic Studies Research Institute, University of Ulster / Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet |
Paper 306-a | Árni Magnússon's Rearrangement of Parchment Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 306-b | Early Modern Patronage and the Preservation of Medieval Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 306-c | Reconstructing the Old Norse Saga of Hamlet (and then Selling it Back to the Danes): Ambales saga as a 17th-Century Forgery (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, 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. |