The Sami representations reflecting the multi-ethnic north of the saga literature
Abstract This article focuses on contextualizing the Sami (finnar) representations in Old Norse saga literature. The purpose is to show that the Sami representations reflect multi-layered Old Norse textual and oral traditions, and complex interaction between the Sami and the Norwegians in the Middle...
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ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe201803276210 2023-07-30T04:04:25+02:00 The Sami representations reflecting the multi-ethnic north of the saga literature Aalto, S. (Sirpa) Lehtola, V.-P. (Veli-Pekka) 2017 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe201803276210 eng eng Umeå Universitet info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pissn/1654-5915 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2017 The authors and Journal of Northern Studies. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher. Iceland migration multi-ethnicity saga literature the Middle Ages the Sami info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftunivoulu 2023-07-08T19:56:15Z Abstract This article focuses on contextualizing the Sami (finnar) representations in Old Norse saga literature. The purpose is to show that the Sami representations reflect multi-layered Old Norse textual and oral traditions, and complex interaction between the Sami and the Norwegians in the Middle Ages. The stereotypes of the Sami tell us more about the society that created them than about real, historical events. We can be sure that behind them lie very mundane phenomena such as trade and marriages. The ultimate goal of the article is therefore to reveal the multi-ethnic North that provided the background for the saga sources, a North whose history is not as homogeneous as sources suggest and quite unlike the modified version which found its way into the histories of nation states. The literary conventions of sagas are not just imaginary tales — their use in various contexts can reveal something essential in otherwise schematic images or configurations. Even researchers of the sagas have certain personal conceptions of what the “real” lives of the Sami were like at the time, and how the sagas depict this. In fact, they participate in a continuum of saga literature that generates representations of the Sami in history. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland sami Jultika - University of Oulu repository |
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Abstract This article focuses on contextualizing the Sami (finnar) representations in Old Norse saga literature. The purpose is to show that the Sami representations reflect multi-layered Old Norse textual and oral traditions, and complex interaction between the Sami and the Norwegians in the Middle Ages. The stereotypes of the Sami tell us more about the society that created them than about real, historical events. We can be sure that behind them lie very mundane phenomena such as trade and marriages. The ultimate goal of the article is therefore to reveal the multi-ethnic North that provided the background for the saga sources, a North whose history is not as homogeneous as sources suggest and quite unlike the modified version which found its way into the histories of nation states. The literary conventions of sagas are not just imaginary tales — their use in various contexts can reveal something essential in otherwise schematic images or configurations. Even researchers of the sagas have certain personal conceptions of what the “real” lives of the Sami were like at the time, and how the sagas depict this. In fact, they participate in a continuum of saga literature that generates representations of the Sami in history. |
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Aalto, S. (Sirpa) Lehtola, V.-P. (Veli-Pekka) |
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Aalto, S. (Sirpa) Lehtola, V.-P. (Veli-Pekka) |
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The Sami representations reflecting the multi-ethnic north of the saga literature |
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The Sami representations reflecting the multi-ethnic north of the saga literature |
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The Sami representations reflecting the multi-ethnic north of the saga literature |
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The Sami representations reflecting the multi-ethnic north of the saga literature |
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The Sami representations reflecting the multi-ethnic north of the saga literature |
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sami representations reflecting the multi-ethnic north of the saga literature |
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Umeå Universitet |
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2017 |
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Iceland sami |
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Iceland sami |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2017 The authors and Journal of Northern Studies. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher. |
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