On the Receiving End: The Role of Scholarship, Memory, and Genre in Constructing Ljósvetninga saga

• Main Author: Tirosh, Yoav
• Other Authors: Ármann Jakobsson, Íslensku- og menningardeild (HÍ), Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI), Hugvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Humanities (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies 2019
• Subjects: Old Norse; Sagas; Authorship; Memory; Genre; Old Icelandic Literature; 15th century; Íslendingasögur; Ljósvetninga saga; Íslenskar fornbókmenntir; Doktorsritgerðir; Theodore; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1305

This thesis reveals how scholarly preconceptions guided the reception of a specific saga, Ljósvetninga saga, and contributes to a wider understanding of how saga, Old Norse, medieval, and general literature are each constantly changing and unstable, both in their preservation, and in the ways they a...