Resident stranger: Sæmundr in the Ashkenaz
When did the Jews reach Iceland?1 There is no evidence that Jews lived there before the seventeenth century. Conversely, however, it may be suggested that Sæmundr inn fróði [the learned] Sigfússon (1056–1133), priest of Oddi and Iceland’s first book-learned historian, lived as a stranger among the J...
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ftucl:oai:eprints.ucl.ac.uk.OAI2:10082256 2023-12-24T10:17:49+01:00 Resident stranger: Sæmundr in the Ashkenaz North, R Thomson, SC 2022-04-14 text https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082256/3/North%202%20Resident%20stranger.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082256/ eng eng Brill https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082256/3/North%202%20Resident%20stranger.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082256/ open In: Thomson, SC, (ed.) Strangers at the Gate! Multidisciplinary Explorations of Communities, Borders, and Othering in Medieval Western Europe. (pp. 146-165). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands. (2022) Book chapter 2022 ftucl 2023-11-27T13:07:26Z When did the Jews reach Iceland?1 There is no evidence that Jews lived there before the seventeenth century. Conversely, however, it may be suggested that Sæmundr inn fróði [the learned] Sigfússon (1056–1133), priest of Oddi and Iceland’s first book-learned historian, lived as a stranger among the Jews of Germany in the 1070s.2 This is partly because he was probably in the Rhineland for more than a decade, partly because one of the Icelandic snippets derived from his writing appears to be based on a commentary on Genesis for which the best analogue is found in Rabbinic commentary. Let us go over Sæmundr’s schooling and writing to see how this suggestion may be made. Book Part Iceland University College London: UCL Discovery |
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When did the Jews reach Iceland?1 There is no evidence that Jews lived there before the seventeenth century. Conversely, however, it may be suggested that Sæmundr inn fróði [the learned] Sigfússon (1056–1133), priest of Oddi and Iceland’s first book-learned historian, lived as a stranger among the Jews of Germany in the 1070s.2 This is partly because he was probably in the Rhineland for more than a decade, partly because one of the Icelandic snippets derived from his writing appears to be based on a commentary on Genesis for which the best analogue is found in Rabbinic commentary. Let us go over Sæmundr’s schooling and writing to see how this suggestion may be made. |
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In: Thomson, SC, (ed.) Strangers at the Gate! Multidisciplinary Explorations of Communities, Borders, and Othering in Medieval Western Europe. (pp. 146-165). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands. (2022) |
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