IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1244: Sound Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, III
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Stefka G. Eriksen, Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning, Oslo |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Miriam Tveit, Fakultetet for Samfunnsvitenskap, Nord universitet |
| Paper 1244-a | What Does the Dog Say?: Listening to Animals in the Sagas of Icelanders (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities |
| Paper 1244-b | The Speaking Dead: Sound and Silence in Encounters with the Dead in Medieval Icelandic Sagas (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities |
| Paper 1244-c | The Sound of Silence in Old Norse Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Even though the sounds of medieval times are irreversibly gone for us, in this session we aim to unmute the past by focusing on the central function of sound for our understanding of medieval culture, and more specifically of Old Norse culture. By studying what manuscripts and texts, things, buildings, and open spaces, art and inscriptions explicitly and implicitly reveal about sound and its role, we aim to discuss the inherent multimodal and multivocal nature of medieval culture. The various papers will demonstrate how medieval materiality, textuality, and visuality simply did not have the same effect without the aural and audible aspects of the culture. |