IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 729: Otherness, Monstrosity, and Deviation in Old Norse Literature and Culture, III: Norms and Social Order
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Old Norse Network of Otherness (ONNO) |
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| Organisers: | Gwendolyne Knight, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet Rebecca Merkelbach, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Gwendolyne Knight, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet |
| Paper 729-a | Berserks and Bad Behaviour: Investigating Deviance and Normativity in Eyrbyggja Saga (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law, Social History |
| Paper 729-b | The Monster behind Us: Paganism, Warriorhood, and the Changing of the Social Order in Egils Saga (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Pagan Religions |
| Paper 729-c | The Friendly 'Others': Cooperation between Steppe Nomadic People and the Vikings (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History |
| Abstract | Introducing the newly formed Old Norse Network of Otherness, and as part of a series of sessions, these papers explore a variety of issues concerning the representations of and attitudes toward different forms of otherness, monstrosity, and deviation in medieval Icelandic literature and culture, and beyond. These sessions are meant to complement the proposed sessions entitled 'Men and Masculinities in Old Norse Literature'. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and comparative approaches, questions of behavioural, socio-cultural, and textual otherness will be addressed, and the interplay of genre, character, text, and culture will be explored through the others, monsters and deviants of Old Norse literature and history. In this third session, issues of social and behavioural otherness and deviation will be analysed in both a literary as well as a broad historical and cultural context. |