The Multiple Facets of Time: Reckoning, Representing, and Understanding Time in Medieval Iceland

• Main Author: Martina Ceolin
• Other Authors: Ceolin, Martina
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Háskóli Íslands 2020
• Subjects: Settore L-FIL-LET/15 - Filologia Germanica; Settore L-LIN/15 - Lingue e Letterature Nordiche; Ari; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10278/3734893

This work investigates the multivalent and dynamic portrayal of time in a selec-tion of early Old Icelandic texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The main objective is to map out the representations of time in terms of the pat-terns conveyed, and to examine how the authors configured time...