Old Irish Curad-Mír and Old Norse Mannjafnađr : Two Forms of Literary Man-Comparison in Early Medieval Literature
Verbal contests for superiority between warriors in a maledominated heroic society exist in a number of cultures and literary traditions. In the literature of early medieval Iceland and Ireland these man-comparisons have been formalized to a point where they appear as instances of what looks like an...
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crjohnshopkinsun:10.1353/cjm.2002.0001 2024-03-03T08:45:45+00:00 Old Irish Curad-Mír and Old Norse Mannjafnađr : Two Forms of Literary Man-Comparison in Early Medieval Literature Frotscher, Antje G. 2002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2002.0001 en eng Project MUSE Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies volume 33, issue 1, page 19-36 ISSN 1557-0290 General Medicine journal-article 2002 crjohnshopkinsun https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2002.0001 2024-02-03T23:21:11Z Verbal contests for superiority between warriors in a maledominated heroic society exist in a number of cultures and literary traditions. In the literature of early medieval Iceland and Ireland these man-comparisons have been formalized to a point where they appear as instances of what looks like an autonomous literary genre. The Old Icelandic mannjafnađr occurs in the Norse sagas both as a legal procedure and as a popular form of entertainment at feasts, the most notable example being the poetry-and-drinking contest in Ôrvar-Odds saga . The early medieval Irish narrative tradition of the Ulster cycle knows two instances of the contest for the curad-mír , the Champion’s Portion, in Fled Bricrenn and Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó . Comparing the two traditions as to their origins, context, content, function, and style, this paper once again takes up the question of possible direct literary influences between Irish and Norse medieval literary culture. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Johns Hopkins University Press Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 33 1 19 36 |
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Verbal contests for superiority between warriors in a maledominated heroic society exist in a number of cultures and literary traditions. In the literature of early medieval Iceland and Ireland these man-comparisons have been formalized to a point where they appear as instances of what looks like an autonomous literary genre. The Old Icelandic mannjafnađr occurs in the Norse sagas both as a legal procedure and as a popular form of entertainment at feasts, the most notable example being the poetry-and-drinking contest in Ôrvar-Odds saga . The early medieval Irish narrative tradition of the Ulster cycle knows two instances of the contest for the curad-mír , the Champion’s Portion, in Fled Bricrenn and Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó . Comparing the two traditions as to their origins, context, content, function, and style, this paper once again takes up the question of possible direct literary influences between Irish and Norse medieval literary culture. |
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Old Irish Curad-Mír and Old Norse Mannjafnađr : Two Forms of Literary Man-Comparison in Early Medieval Literature |
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Old Irish Curad-Mír and Old Norse Mannjafnađr : Two Forms of Literary Man-Comparison in Early Medieval Literature |
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Old Irish Curad-Mír and Old Norse Mannjafnađr : Two Forms of Literary Man-Comparison in Early Medieval Literature |
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