Moving Words in the Nordic Middle Ages (2019)
Moving Words in the Nordic Middle Ages: Tracing Literacies, Texts, Verbal Communities. Edited by Amy Mulligan and Else Mundal. Acta Scandinavica 8. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.
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聽comprises thirteen chapters that demonstrate the different ways words move individuals and create larger social and political communities through the dissemination of texts and their performances with a focus on the Nordic Middle Ages. Co-edited by Else Mundal, professor emerita at the University of Bergen, and Amy Mulligan, formerly a postdoctoral research at the University of Bergen and presently at the University of Notre Dame, the book contains eight chapters come from members of the research group:
- Else Mundal, 鈥淢edieval Nordic Backgrounds: Written Culture in an Oral Society鈥
- Aidan Conti, 鈥淐reating Absence: The Representation of Writing in Early Histories of the North鈥
- 脜slaug Ommundsen, 鈥淭racing Scribal Centres in Medieval Norway鈥
- Jonas Wellendorf, 鈥淟etters from Kings: Epistolary Communication in the Kings鈥 Sagas (until c. 1150)鈥
- Kristel Zilmer, 鈥Gyr冒ir 谩聽lykil (Gyr冒ir owns the key): Materialized Moments of Communication in Runic Items in Medieval Bergen鈥
- Helen Leslie-Jacobsen, 鈥溓猺var-Oddr鈥檚 脝惫颈办惫颈冒补 and the Genesis of 仟rvar-Odds saga鈥
- Ingvil Br眉gger Budal, 鈥溾橞lood flying and brains falling like rain鈥: Chivalric Conflict Gone Norse鈥
- Else Mundal, 鈥淔rom Oral to Written in Old Norse Culture: Questions of Genre, Contact, and Continuity鈥
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