Sagas of Icelanders (Ílendinga sögur) and þœttir as the literary representation of a new social space

The Connection Between Geographical Space and Collective Memory in Jómsvíkinga saga

“…12 As Jürg Glauser has pointed out, sagas semioticize landscapethey map it and transform nature into landscape. In the end, semioticization of landscape forms a trope of memory (Glauser 2009: 209; see also Glauser on 'spatial modes of thought' in Glauser 2007: 19-20). I think that some of the lieux de mémoire in Old Norse tradition have become such tropesit would be enough to hear the place name and it would evoke points of resemblance to particular sagas.…”

The Mind’s Eye: The Triad of Memory, Space and the Senses in Old Norse Literature

“…The classical rhetoricians formalized memory within their educational system, but ob-Tamm 2013. About memory in the context of Old Norse culture and literature see, e. g., Glauser 2000;Hermann and Mitchell 2013;Bennett 2014;Hermann, Mitchell and Arnórsdóttir 2014. 2 This generality is supported by modern scholarship's theoretical concern with space; most often, however, recent studies focus not on internal spaces (i.e.…”

“…Old Norse literature reveals that landscapes were mnemonic spaces of crucial importance for the preservation of the past (Glauser 2000, Bennett 2014). Yet architectonic structures can also act as prisms through which memory practices can be understood.…”

Burial Practices as Sites of Cultural Memory in the Íslendingasögur

“…A cultural memory approach to medieval Icelandic literature has only recently been initiated. Jürg Glauser (2000Glauser ( , 2007 has examined the Íslendinga-sögur and þaettir as vehicles of medieval Icelandic cultural memory, and Jesse Byock (2004) has used Egils saga to exemplify the sagas as repositories of 'social memory'. In tune with this development is Úlfar Bragason's statement that 'Sturlunga saga, like other sagas, is a medium of cultural memory ' (2005, 442) and Jonas Wellendorf 's characterization of the written myths of the Settlement as 'enshrined in the cultural memory of the Icelanders' (2010, 3).…”