Disability before Disability: Mapping the Uncharted in the Medieval Sagas

Jakobsson,; Heiniger,; Crocker,; Sigurjónsdóttir,

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“…Among the abundance of surviving written material produced by Iceland's relatively late-coming medieval literary culture, the so-called Íslendingasögur (Sagas about Early Icelanders) have frequently attracted the most scholarly attention with respect to disability (Jakobsson et al 2020, p. 443, Crocker 2019. Though these sagas likely derive from enduring cultural memories and oral traditions, saga writing in Iceland probably did not begin until the late 12th century.…”

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Understanding Disability Throughout History

Sigurjónsdóttir¹,

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2021

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Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially, and administratively.The book focuses on Iceland from the Age of Settlement, traditionally considered to have taken place from 874 to 930, until the 1936 Law on Social Security (Lög um almannatryggingar), which is the first time that disabled people were referenced in Iceland as a legal or administrative category. Data sources analysed in the project represent a broad range of materials that are not often featured in the study of disability, such as bone collections, medieval literature, and census data from the early modern era, archaeological remains, historical archives, folktales and legends, personal narratives, and museum displays. The ten chapters include contributions from a multidisciplinary team of experts working in the fields of Disability Studies, History, Archaeology, Medieval Icelandic Literature, Folklore and Ethnology, Anthropology, Museum Studies, and Archival Sciences, along with a collection of postdoctoral and graduate students.The volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, history, medieval studies, ethnology, folklore, and archaeology.

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