Staroseverské rytířské ságy a jejich proměny // Old Norse chivalric sagas and their transformations

• Main Author: Markéta Ivánková
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Czech; English; Spanish; French; Portuguese
• Published: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická Fakulta 2017
• Subjects: rytířské ságy; dvorská epika; staroseverský; Norsko; Island; chivalric sagas; courtly epic; Old Norse; Norway; Iceland; Language and Literature; P; Roland; Tristan
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/bad3bd89b3454218b0e351e9dbcab5f7

This study examines the most characteristic features of the Scandinavian prose romances. The contrast between the translated and original chivalric sagas is illustrated on the Norwegian translation of the Song of Roland and on the late Icelandic re-working of Tristan. Our aim was to explain the changes in the context of the Old Norse culture as well as literary conventions. The Old Norse translations were partially shaped to satisfy the expectations of the target audience unused to the genre. The dissolving courtly ideals in the late-medieval Icelandic tradition are, according the author, rather similar to the development of the late German Artusroman than purely a sign of Scandinavian incomprehension of the concepts.