Kontingenz und Zufall in den altisländischen Königssagas

Nahl, Jan Alexander van

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“…As Jesse L. Byock has demonstrated, Icelandic society developed in the course of time from the early settlement period to the growth of chieftains, leading over to a consensual government, while accepting the Christian faith in the year 1000 (Byock 1988; cf. also Sawyer and Sawyer 1993;van Nahl 2022).…”

Section: Rationality In the North?mentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Most intriguingly, this new era was deeply determined by the emergence of the personal 'I,' the individual awareness which slowly but steadily transformed the collective society of the early Middle Ages to the individualized society of the high Middle Ages and beyond. Poets increasingly presented themselves in specific autobiographical terms; architects, such as the Parlers, left busts of themselves in their cathedrals (St. Vitus, Prague; see also the sculptures in St. Mauritius in Halle a. d. S. (Conrad von Einbeck) and on the outside of St. Martin in Landshut (Hans von Burghausen)); scientific and medical authors, such as Roger Bacon, were proud of their own accomplishments (Fichtenau [1992(Fichtenau [ ] 1998Brooke 1969;Constable 1996;Griffiths 2007;Dinzelbacher 2017;van Nahl 2022).…”

Section: Theoretical Introduction: the Emergence Of The Twelfth-centu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Emergence of Rationality in the Icelandic Sagas: The Colossal Misunderstanding of the Viking Lore in Contemporary Popular Culture

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For a long time now, Old Norse literature has often been colonized and misappropriated by modern right-wing political groups for their own ideology, symbolism, and public appearance. A critical reading of Icelandic sagas, however, easily demonstrates that those public strategies are very short-sighted, misleading, and outright dangerous for our democratic society. To stem the flood of misinformation regarding the Viking world and its literature, this article joins a small but forceful chorus of recent scholars who are hard at work deconstructing this politicization of saga literature by way of offering new readings of those texts in which the very Viking ideology is actually exposed by the poets, rejected, and supplanted by new forms of social interactions predicated on a legal system and an operation with rationality in the public sphere.

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Section: Rationality In the North?mentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Theoretical Introduction: the Emergence Of The Twelfth-centu...mentioning

confidence: 99%