Speech-Wrangling:Shutting Up and Shutting Out the Oral Tradition in Some Icelandic Sagas
This chapter considers the role of prolegomena and authorial interventions in constraining and contextualizing orally derived saga narratives in high medieval Iceland. It examines the question of whether prolegomena were intended to be included in oral renditions of the sagas and, if so, in whose ‘v...
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fticiberlin:oai:ici-berlin.org:ci-23_04 2023-05-15T16:50:34+02:00 Speech-Wrangling:Shutting Up and Shutting Out the Oral Tradition in Some Icelandic Sagas McMahon, Brian 2022-04-19 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_04 https://oa.ici-berlin.org/files/original/10.37050_ci-23/cover_ci_23.jpeg https://oa.ici-berlin.org/files/original/10.37050_ci-23/mcmahon_speech_wrangling.pdf https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/mcmahon_speech-wrangling.html eng eng ICI Berlin Press info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.37050/ci-23_04 https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.1484/M.AS-EB.1.101981 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.7591/9781501740510 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.1017/CBO9780511763274 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.2307/2864293 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.1017/CBO9780511518720 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.2307/522272 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.4324/9781315613628-4 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.1353/scd.2013.0037 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.1484/M.USML-EB.3.4282 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.5040/9781350167445 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.1017/CBO9780511552922.003 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/doi/10.1484/M.MISCS-EB.1.100758 https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_04 urn:isbn:none https://oa.ici-berlin.org/files/original/10.37050_ci-23/cover_ci_23.jpeg https://oa.ici-berlin.org/files/original/10.37050_ci-23/mcmahon_speech_wrangling.pdf https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/mcmahon_speech-wrangling.html info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © by the author(s) Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC-BY-SA Openness in Medieval Europe, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 65–84 oral tradition prologues epilogues authority recitation Old Norse info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2022 fticiberlin https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_04 https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AS-EB.1.101981 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501740510 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511763274 https://doi.org/10.2307/2864293 https://doi.org/10.1017/CB 2022-12-25T23:24:54Z This chapter considers the role of prolegomena and authorial interventions in constraining and contextualizing orally derived saga narratives in high medieval Iceland. It examines the question of whether prolegomena were intended to be included in oral renditions of the sagas and, if so, in whose ‘voice’ they were understood to be spoken. The ‘openness’ of a saga text — the extent of editorial freedom enjoyed by those concerned with extracting it from the oral milieu — has been much discussed; however, less attention has historically been paid to the freedom which the written texts then afforded any would-be reciter for emending or adapting their content when reading them aloud to a live audience. Prolegomena provide our most instructive source of contemporary commentary on how the written sagas should be understood and transmitted, and they therefore represent distinct and important critical texts in their own right, which inform our understanding of how ‘open’ or ‘fixed’ medieval Icelanders understood these extant written sagas to be. Brian McMahon, ‘Speech-Wrangling: Shutting Up and Shutting Out the Oral Tradition in Some Icelandic Sagas’, in Openness in Medieval Europe , ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 65-84 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_04> Book Part Iceland ICI Berlin Repository McMahon ENVELOPE(65.148,65.148,-70.835,-70.835) Geophysical Research Letters 44 13 6692 6701 |
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This chapter considers the role of prolegomena and authorial interventions in constraining and contextualizing orally derived saga narratives in high medieval Iceland. It examines the question of whether prolegomena were intended to be included in oral renditions of the sagas and, if so, in whose ‘voice’ they were understood to be spoken. The ‘openness’ of a saga text — the extent of editorial freedom enjoyed by those concerned with extracting it from the oral milieu — has been much discussed; however, less attention has historically been paid to the freedom which the written texts then afforded any would-be reciter for emending or adapting their content when reading them aloud to a live audience. Prolegomena provide our most instructive source of contemporary commentary on how the written sagas should be understood and transmitted, and they therefore represent distinct and important critical texts in their own right, which inform our understanding of how ‘open’ or ‘fixed’ medieval Icelanders understood these extant written sagas to be. Brian McMahon, ‘Speech-Wrangling: Shutting Up and Shutting Out the Oral Tradition in Some Icelandic Sagas’, in Openness in Medieval Europe , ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 65-84 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_04> |
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