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Les Flammes du Temps:: Bál tímans comme biographie d\u27un objet
No full textThe manuscript as narrator in Icelandic children’s novel Bál tímans (2022) belongs to a literary tradition of sentient object narrators who document the domestic spaces in which they circulate. Bál tímans shifts the reader’s focus to normally invisible manuscript owners and users, including women and children, bringing attention to disparities in access created through archive-building activities. In domestic settings, Möðruvallabók is accessible to a broad segment of the Icelandic population through practices of social reading, women’s book ownership, and home education. In the archive, human-manuscript interactions are restricted to a narrow and initially male-only elite. While tensions between preservation and access are resolved when the codex is exhibited in a museum space where it can share its stories with a wider audience, Bál tímans examines what can be lost by bringing cultural objects into archival spaces.Le manuscript narrant le roman islandais pour enfants Bál tímans par Arndís Þórarinsdóttir appartient à une tradition littéraire où le narrateur est un objet conscient et sensible qui documente les espaces domestiques dans lesquels il circule. En tant que biographie fictive de ce codex historique, Bál tímans porte l’attention du lecteur sur les propriétaires et usagers du manuscript normalement invisibles, tels que les femmes et les enfants. Le roman attire notre attention sur les disparités d’accessibilité résultant de l’établissement d’archives. Avant d’être envoyé au Danemark à la fin du dix-septième siècle, Möðruvallabók (AM 132 fol.) est accessible à une large portion d’Islandais grâce aux pratiques de lectures sociales, des femmes propriétaires de livres et de l’enseignement à domicile. Dans les archives, en revanche, ses interactions avec des humains sont réduites à une élite restreinte et, dans un premier temps, uniquement male. Même si les tensions entre préservation et accessibilité sont résolues dans le roman lorsque le codex est exposé dans un musée, où il peut à nouveau partager ses histoires avec un large public, Bál tímans porte un oeil critique sur ce qui peut être perdu lorsque des objets culturels sont apportés dans des archives
Dale Kedwards. The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland.
No full textKedwards, Dale. 2020. The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer. 262 pages. ISBN: 978-1-84384-569-0. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxhrjnp.Kedwards, Dale. 2020. The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer. 262 pages. ISBN: 978-1-84384-569-0. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxhrjnp
Men and Trolls: A Discussion of Race and the Depiction of the Sámi in the Hrafnistumannasögur
Get PDFThis article discusses the often stereotyped and essentialized depiction of the Sámi in Old Norse sources in light of recent work on critical race theory and its application to the Middle Ages. Focussing on the portrayal of Sámi characters in the late-medieval Hrafnistumannasögur (Sagas of the Men of Hrafnista), this article argues that Norse portrayals of the Sámi were racial in character and that there did indeed exist a racial dynamic between the two peoples, at least during the late-medieval period from which these sagas survive. Consideration is also given towards how both positive and negative portrayals of the Sàmi in these sources can be understood within a racialized context. This article is a winner of the 2022 Marna Feldt Graduate Publication Award.
À la lumière des récents travaux sur la théorie raciale critique [critical race theory] et son application dans le contexte du Moyen- ge, cet article traite de la représentation, souvent stéréotypée et essentialiste, des Samis dans les sources en vieux norois. Se concentrant sur les portraits des personnages Samis dans les Hrafnistumannasögur (sagas des hommes de Hrafnista) du bas Moyen- ge, cet article argumente que les représentations nordiques des Samis étaient de caractère racial et qu’il existait en effet une dynamique raciale entre les deux peuples, tout du moins durant le bas Moyen- ge, période d’où ces sagas nous proviennent. L’interprétation, dans un contexte racialisé, des représentations positives et négatives des Samis dans ces sources est également pris en considération. Cet article a reçu le Prix Marna Feldt de publication pour diplômé [graduate] de 2022.À la lumière des récents travaux sur la théorie raciale critique [critical race theory] et son application dans le contexte du Moyen- ge, cet article traite de la représentation, souvent stéréotypée et essentialiste, des Samis dans les sources en vieux norois. Se concentrant sur les portraits des personnages Samis dans les Hrafnistumannasögur (sagas des hommes de Hrafnista) du bas Moyen- ge, cet article argumente que les représentations nordiques des Samis étaient de caractère racial et qu’il existait en effet une dynamique raciale entre les deux peuples, tout du moins durant le bas Moyen- ge, période d’où ces sagas nous proviennent. L’interprétation, dans un contexte racialisé, des représentations positives et négatives des Samis dans ces sources est également pris en considération. Cet article a reçu le Prix Marna Feldt de publication pour diplômé [graduate] de 2022.
This article discusses the often stereotyped and essentialized depiction of the Sámi in Old Norse sources in light of recent work on critical race theory and its application to the Middle Ages. Focussing on the portrayal of Sámi characters in the late-medieval Hrafnistumannasögur (Sagas of the Men of Hrafnista), this article argues that Norse portrayals of the Sámi were racial in character and that there did indeed exist a racial dynamic between the two peoples, at least during the late-medieval period from which these sagas survive. Consideration is also given towards how both positive and negative portrayals of the Sàmi in these sources can be understood within a racialized context. This article is a winner of the 2022 Marna Feldt Graduate Publication Award
Anja Tröger. Affective Spaces. Migration in Scandinavian and German Transnational Narratives.
Get PDFAnja Tröger. Affective Spaces: Migration in Scandinavian and German Transnational Narratives. Cambridge: Legenda, 2021. 181 pages. ISBN: 978-1-83954-013-4.Anja Tröger. Affective Spaces: Migration in Scandinavian and German Transnational Narratives. Cambridge: Legenda, 2021. 181 pages. ISBN: 978-1-83954-013-4
Ármann Jakobsson and Sverrir Jakobsson, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
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Shadows and Silences in Göran Rosenberg’s Memoir: Jewish Postmemory in the Swedish Welfare State
Get PDFThis article, winner of the 2022 Marna Feldt Graduate Publication Award, explores the concept of postmemory in relation to Sweden’s cultural memory of World War II. Through an analysis of Göran Rosenberg’s memoir "Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz" (2012), translated as "A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz," this article investigates how the representation of postmigrant identity and belonging relates to revisionist historiography regarding Sweden’s positionality during World War II. Furthermore, this article illuminates how exploring the postmemory trauma of the children of Holocaust survivors is relevant to the current discourse in Sweden’s contemporary transcultural society.
Cet article, gagnant du Prix Marna Feldt de publication pour diplomé [graduate], explore le concept de post-mémoire dans la mémoire culturelle de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Suède. À travers une analyse du mémoire de Göran Rosenberg “Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz” (2012), au titre anglais “A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz” [Un court arrêt au retour d’Auschwitz], cet article examine comment la représentation de l’identité et de l’appartenance post-migratoires se rapportent à l’historiographie révisionnistesur la position de la Suède durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. De plus, cet article illumine comment l’exploration des traumatismes post-mémoriels des enfants de survivants de l’Holocauste est importante à l’heure actuelle dans la société transculturelle de Suède.Cet article, gagnant du Prix Marna Feldt de publication pour diplomé [graduate], explore le concept de post-mémoire dans la mémoire culturelle de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Suède. À travers une analyse du mémoire de Göran Rosenberg “Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz” (2012), au titre anglais “A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz” [Un court arrêt au retour d’Auschwitz], cet article examine comment la représentation de l’identité et de l’appartenance post-migratoires se rapportent à l’historiographie révisionnistesur la position de la Suède durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. De plus, cet article illumine comment l’exploration des traumatismes post-mémoriels des enfants de survivants de l’Holocauste est importante à l’heure actuelle dans la société transculturelle de Suède.
This article, winner of the 2022 Marna Feldt Graduate Publication Award, explores the concept of postmemory in relation to Sweden’s cultural memory of World War II. Through an analysis of Göran Rosenberg’s memoir "Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz" (2012), translated as "A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz," this article investigates how the representation of postmigrant identity and belonging relates to revisionist historiography regarding Sweden’s positionality during World War II. Furthermore, this article illuminates how exploring the postmemory trauma of the children of Holocaust survivors is relevant to the current discourse in Sweden’s contemporary transcultural society
Memories Carved in Stones? Collective Memory Studies and Early Scandinavian Rune-Stones, or Remarks on the Banalities of “Burial-Stones”
Get PDFABSTRACT: The present article reconsiders the general assumption that pre-Viking-Age
rune-stones were erected as commemorative monuments for the dead or were generally
related to burial customs practiced during the Iron Age of Scandinavia. Based on a
researched historical contextualization, the article finds that rune-stones have often
been interpreted on premises that ultimately originate outside the internal evidence
provided by the rune-stones in question. With the aid of collective memory as a theoretical-analytical
framework, these earliest written memory media are then addressed in terms of a complex
social phenomenon. Illustrated by selected examples of single inscriptions, the present
article argues that the early rune-stones were on various levels crucial in creating
and maintaining collective memories in Scandinavian Iron-Age communities and not necessarily
related to the dead
The Forgotten King of Denmark – Haraldr II
Get PDFABSTRACT: King Haraldr II ruled the Kingdom of Denmark from 1014 to 1018; however,
his reign is challenging to study due to a lack of source material. A detailed analysis
of the written primary sources from Denmark and Iceland—such as Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, Chronicon Roskilde, and Knýtlinga saga—gives the impression that the Danes wanted to forget Haraldr II by deliberately omitting
his brief reign from these narratives. This article investigates the possible reasons
why Danish historians of the eleventh and twelfth centuries may have wanted to collectively
forget Haraldr. To demonstrate how Haraldr has been omitted from historical narratives,
this study compares a variety of different primary sources from Scandinavia and England,
in order to gather as much information as possible on the topic. The article subsequently
explores three possible explanations as to why Haraldr has been omitted: (1) the possibility
that Haraldr reverted to pre-Christian religious beliefs, contradicting medieval historians’
perspectives of a true king, (2) transmission of the sources in the medieval ages
and (3) a lack of worthwhile events during the height of medieval Danish success
