Personal Memory, Family Memory, Collective Memory? The Parting Gifts in Egils saga, chapter 61
The aim of this article is to discuss the uses of memory focusing on a scene in Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, a long prose text written in Iceland in the first half of the thirteenth century. Both the theoretical background and current trends of memory and gift studies as applied to saga scholarship...
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ftconicet:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/183359 2023-10-09T21:52:44+02:00 Personal Memory, Family Memory, Collective Memory? The Parting Gifts in Egils saga, chapter 61 Barreiro, Santiago Francisco application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11336/183359 eng eng Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://scancan.net/index.php/scancan/article/view/207 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.29173/scancan207 http://hdl.handle.net/11336/183359 Barreiro, Santiago Francisco; Personal Memory, Family Memory, Collective Memory? The Parting Gifts in Egils saga, chapter 61; Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada; Scandinavian-Canadian Studies; 28; 10-2020; 204-229 0823-1796 CONICET Digital CONICET info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/ Memoria Don Sagas Islandia https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion ftconicet https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan207 2023-09-24T19:05:17Z The aim of this article is to discuss the uses of memory focusing on a scene in Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, a long prose text written in Iceland in the first half of the thirteenth century. Both the theoretical background and current trends of memory and gift studies as applied to saga scholarship are examined and then used to analyze the role of a detailed exchange of goods between two of the central characters in the saga, Egill and Arinbjǫrn. The final part of the article focuses on studying the scene in its historical context of production, arguing that the saga uses gift exchange to memorialize the lineage of prominent Icelanders likely related to the writing of the saga. Fil: Barreiro, Santiago Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas; Argentina Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Islandia CONICET Digital (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) Argentina Saavedra ENVELOPE(-57.931,-57.931,-63.317,-63.317) Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 28 204 229 |
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The aim of this article is to discuss the uses of memory focusing on a scene in Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, a long prose text written in Iceland in the first half of the thirteenth century. Both the theoretical background and current trends of memory and gift studies as applied to saga scholarship are examined and then used to analyze the role of a detailed exchange of goods between two of the central characters in the saga, Egill and Arinbjǫrn. The final part of the article focuses on studying the scene in its historical context of production, arguing that the saga uses gift exchange to memorialize the lineage of prominent Icelanders likely related to the writing of the saga. Fil: Barreiro, Santiago Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas; Argentina |
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