IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 549: Transmission of Old Icelandic Texts in Their Manuscript Contexts

Tuesday 2 July 2019, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:	Ermenegilda Rachel Müller, Faculty of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík
Moderator/Chair:	Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet
Paper 549-a	How Has the Literature of the Icelandic Middle Ages Come Down to Us? (Language: English) Matthew Driscoll, Irish & Celtic Studies Research Institute, University of Ulster / Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 549-b	Um Grænlands byggð: The Greenland Epilogue of Króka-Refs saga (Language: English) Zuzana Stankovitsová, Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 549-c	Variance and Material Transmission of Víga-Glúms saga in the 17th Century (Language: English) Ermenegilda Rachel Müller, Faculty of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 549-d	Studies in the Transmission of Kringilnefjukvæði (Language: English) Ana Belén Piñera Álvarez, Institut für Skandinavistik, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	This session focuses on the interplay between the textual variance and the material transmission of Old Icelandic texts. Its four papers address the material transmission of medieval Icelandic texts in the post-medieval period (Matthew James Driscoll), the variance and manuscript context of two sagas of the Icelanders (Ermenegilda Müller, Zuzana Stankovitsová), and the material transmission of the sagnakvæði (folktale poem) Kringilnefjukvæði (Ana Piñera, Jan Kozák et al.). All papers adopt a material-philological approach and share a common set of methods: - Emphasis on the variance of texts rather than their archetype. - Analysis of the interaction between the texts and the codicological features of individual manuscripts. - Quantitative treatment of textual variation and codicological features.