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 ...
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ftunivfrankfurt:oai:publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de:68700 2023-05-15T16:50:06+02:00 Speech-wrangling : shutting up and shutting out the oral tradition in some Icelandic sagas McMahon, Brian 2022-06-22 application/pdf http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68700 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687003 https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_04 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/68700/mcmahon_speech-wrangling.pdf eng eng http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68700 urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687003 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687003 978-3-96558-029-9 978-3-96558-030-5 https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_04 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/68700/mcmahon_speech-wrangling.pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY-SA Saga Altnordisch Island Mündiche Überlieferung Schriftlichkeit Prolog Epilog Autorität ddc:800 ddc:839 bookpart doc-type:bookPart 2022 ftunivfrankfurt https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_04 2022-10-23T22:46:06Z 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. Book Part Iceland Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 65 84 |
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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. |
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