Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic “Maríu saga” in Its Manuscript Contexts
Title | Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic “Maríu saga” in Its Manuscript Contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel C. Najork |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 153 |
Release | 2021-02-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501514121 |
Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of the saga provides two versions based on multiple manuscripts and prints significant variants in the notes, it does not preserve the literary and social contexts of those manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. This study restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the meaning of the text within its manuscript matrix, why it was copied in the specific manuscripts it was, and how it was read and used by the different communities that preserved the manuscripts.
Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic “Maríu saga” in Its Manuscript Contexts
Title | Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic “Maríu saga” in Its Manuscript Contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel C. Najork |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 174 |
Release | 2021-02-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501514148 |
Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of the saga provides two versions based on multiple manuscripts and prints significant variants in the notes, it does not preserve the literary and social contexts of those manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. This study restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the meaning of the text within its manuscript matrix, why it was copied in the specific manuscripts it was, and how it was read and used by the different communities that preserved the manuscripts.
Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts
Title | Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts PDF eBook |
Author | Jónas Kristjánsson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 104 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Icelandic literature |
ISBN |
The Old Norse Sagas
Title | The Old Norse Sagas PDF eBook |
Author | Halvdan Koht |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 1931 |
Genre | Old Norse literature |
ISBN |
Mariu Saga
Title | Mariu Saga PDF eBook |
Author | C. R. Unger |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780404187071 |
Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts
Title | Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts PDF eBook |
Author | Jónas Kristjánsson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 95 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Manuscripts, Old Norse |
ISBN | 9780686917687 |
Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research
Title | Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research PDF eBook |
Author | Viking Society for Northern Research |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Icelandic literature |
ISBN |
List of members in v. 3, 5.