IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 638: After the Icelandic Commonwealth, II: Representing Royal Power
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Tom Morcom, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Merkelbach, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 638-a | The Dissenting þættir of Hulda-Hrokkinskinna and the Post-1264 Redaction of the Sagas of Kings (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 638-b | Gunnhildr konungamóðir, the Icelanders, and the Question of Otherness (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Political Thought, Women's Studies |
| Paper 638-c | A King of Their Own?: Óláfr Tryggvason in Medieval Icelandic Prose (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Abstract | This panel is part of a series on 'Iceland in the Medieval World', focusing on discursive navigations of the social, cultural, and political position of Iceland, after the island became part of the kingdom of Norway in 1262-1264. This panel examines how Old Norse-Icelandic literary texts represent royal authorities, and what these representations suggest about the shifting relationship between medieval Icelanders and foreign regnal power during and after the dissolution of the independent commonwealth. In particular, this panel focuses on how these texts construct the dichotomy between Norwegians and Icelanders to express contemporaneous attitudes towards the institution of Norwegian rule. |