Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders

Introduction: Literature and Memory, History and Historiography

Cultural Memory and the Islendingasoegur

Islendingasoegur as Sources of History: The Debate

AEthelstan, AEthelred and Knutr: A Historical Overview

Chapter Overview

Part 1

1 Narrative, Verse and Memory

The Fear of Forgetting and the Value of Writing

Cultural Memory and Medieval memoria

Communicative Memory and Skaldic verse

Memory and Literature

2 Saga Age England

England in the Islendingasoegur

England in the skaldasoegur: Egils saga

England in the skaldasoegur: Gunnlaugs saga, Bjarnar saga

3 Iceland and the Writing of the Islendingasoegur

The Islendingasoegur Corpus

Saga Age Iceland

Iceland in the Age of Saga Writing

Part 2

4 Memories of Heroism: Bjarnar saga Hitdoelakappa

Manuscript Contexts

Bj?rn's Travels

Reconstructing a Chronology

Thematic Intertextuality: Of Kings and Dragons

5 Memories of Rulers: Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu

Gunnlaugr's Travels

The skald in Literary Frameworks

The skald as Poet: The Hierarchies of Verse

The skald as Warrior: A Fabricated Narrative

6 Memories of Conflict: Egils saga Skallagrimssonar

Egill's Travels

The Battle of Brunanburh

The Court of Eirikr blo?ox in York

Conclusion

Interpretation and Reinterpretation

Remembering England

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• História Medieval
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