Oral to literary: kvöldvaka, textual instability, and all that jazz

• Main Author: Allard, Joe
• Other Authors: Skandinavistik / Universität Tübingen
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Tübingen 2004
• Subjects: Saga; Island; 839; Oral tradition; saga entertainment; co-excistence of performances; Foote; Pálsson; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/46211; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-10730

Saga entertainment (sagnaskemtun) was a regular element of any social gathering in medieval Scandinavia (cf Þorgils saga ok Hafliða; Íslendings þáttur sögufróða;Stjörnu-Odda draumr, etc.). Many studies of the old literature suggest that the eleventh and twelfth centuries witness a shift in the pract...