![]() ![]() In the introduction, the thesis establishes its material philology approach, presents its assumptions about medieval authorship and intentionality, and argues for the use of the paper manuscript AM 485 4to as the base manuscript for its treatment of C-redaction. The thesis deals with its primary question: How did the reception of Ljósvetninga saga in-fluence its construction? It shows that Ljósvetninga saga has been constantly rewritten over time by its oral performers, its literary authors, its scribes, its publishers, and its scholars. This thesis approaches both redactions as independent, internally-coherent texts rather than stressing their literary relationship. Theodore Andersson’s attempt to shift the debate toward a compromise between Freeprose and Bookprose has only been par-tially successful, due, among other reasons, to his continued eleva-tion of one redaction (the C-redaction). These two understand-ings of the saga are also tied to two different editions of the saga, which have been alternately used to elevate one redaction over the other. The divergent redactions are the source of much speculation about the text’s origins, split between an interpretation of oral composition, commonly referred to as Freeprose, and one of written composi-tion, commonly referred to as Bookprose. and its approximately fifty post-medieval paper copies. This saga, most likely written in the thir-teenth century, is atypical in that it has two seperate redactions that offer highly divergent information and narratives in several seg-ments, dividing the saga between the A-redaction, based on the late fourteenth–early fifteenth-century manuscript AM 561 4to, and the C-redaction, based on the mid-fifteenth-century manuscript AM 162 c fol. Most of the academic debate surrounding Ljósvetninga saga has focused on the issue of its origins. Ljósvetninga saga takes place in Northern Iceland during the tenth and eleventh centuries and focuses on the political maneuverings of the chieftain Guðmundr inn ríki Eyjólfsson and his son Eyjólfr. ![]() (For citing individual page numbers, please contact the author directly)ĭoctoral Thesis from the University of Iceland, 2019, under the supervision of Ármann Jakobsson and the committee members Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir and Pernille Hermann. ![]() These concepts' proposed applicability and relevance to the medieval Scandinavian context enrich our understanding of how premodern bodies functioned - and malfunctioned - under stress limit conditions. Of especial interest to the present study is the concept of the open body, borrowed from neuroscience, as well as the phenomenon of the dissolving self - an estrangement from oneself that occurs when al the perceived boundaries between self and environment begin to collapse. The central focus is on the psychological and physiological effects of these ecological entanglements upon the sagas' living characters trapped in these adverse conditions. ![]() This dynamic is extended to "acts of nature" and severe weather phenomena as depicted in the sagas, and links between meteorological turbulence and revenant hauntings are explored. Available open access on google books: The article interprets the natural physical topography of medieval Iceland as a zone of paranormal radiation exercising alterity upon those "exposed" to it. ![]()
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