Fornaldarsagaerne: Myter og virkelighed. Studier i de oldislandske "fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda"

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The Legendary Sagas are recovering some of the great popularity they enjoyed in the medieval period. This trio of editors has now arranged two international conferences on 'fornaldarsögur' and published the essays that have grown out of them, first in 'Fornaldarsagornas struktur och ideologi' (Uppsala, 2003) and again in the present volume, 'Fornaldarsagaerne: Myter og virkelighed'. As a theme, "myths and reality" is roomy without being meaningless, and the individual essays take a variety of approaches to both pagan belief systems and scholarly misconceptions. The idea of reality, too, comes under the loupe. These twenty-three essays exemplify the really wonderful breadth of contemporary research. Authors come from multiple disciplinary directions, and they have things to tell us about literature, religious and political history, iconography, ideology, anthropology, and theater history. The intended audience of this volume is one for whom the modern Scandinavian languages pose no difficulties. About half the essays are written in Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish, and the balance are in English. Indledning 9 Matthew Driscoll / Plans for a New Edition of the 'Fornaldarsögur', anno 1937 17 Elise Kleivane / Sagaene om Oddr og Eiríkr: Ei teksthistorisk tilnærming til to fornaldersagaer 27 Jon Gunnar Jørgensen / 'Ynglinga saga' mellom fornaldersaga og kongesaga 49 Else Mundal / 'Ynglinga saga' og genreproblematikken 6l Karsten Friis-Jensen / Saxo Grammaticus og fornaldarsagaerne 67 Gottskálk Jensson / Were the Earliest 'fornaldarsögur' written in Latin? 79 Michael Chesnutt / The Content and Meaning of 'Gjafa-Refs saga' 93 Marianne Kalinke / Endogamy as the Crux of the 'Dalafífla Þáttr' 107 Judy Quinn / The Realisation of Mythological Design: The Early Generations of the Völsung Dynasty 123 Agneta Ney / Sigurdstraditionens välkomstmotiv i text och bild 143 Catharina Raudvere / Myt, genealogi och berättande: En religionshistorisk läsning av några motiv i 'Völsungasagan' 153 Jens Peter Schjødt / Kan myten være virkelighed? 167 Ármann Jakobsson / Identifying the Ogre: The Legendary Saga Giants 181 John McKinnell / The Fantasy Giantess: Brana in 'Hálfdanar saga Brǫnufóstra' 201 Henric Bagerius / Vidunderliga kvinnor vid vatten: Konfliktskapande intimitet i myt och verklighet 223 Ásdís Egilsdóttir / En verden skabes - en mand bliver til 245 Annette Lassen / Skurðgoð, trégoð, hofgyðjur og heiðinglig hof: En gruppe hedenske elementer og deres kontekst i 'Ǫrvar-Odds saga', 'Sturlaugs saga starfsama' og 'Bósa saga' 255 Stephen A. Mitchell / The Supernatural and the 'fornaldarsögur': The Case of 'Ketils saga hængs' 281 Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir / A 'Fornaldarsaga' on Stage: From a Mythic Past to a Modern Icelandic Audience 299 Margaret Clunies Ross / 'Fornaldarsögur' as Fantastic Ethnographies 317 Carl Phelpstead / Adventure-Time in 'Yngvars saga víðförla' 331 Elizabeth Ashman Rowe / 'Ragnars saga loðbrókar', 'Ragnarssona Þáttr', and the Political World of Haukr Erlendsson 347 Ralph O'Connor / Truth and Lies in the 'fornaldarsögur': The Prologue to 'Göngu-Hrólfs saga' 361 Nogle nylige studier af fornaldarsagaer 379 Forfattere 387