{"title":"The Head, the Heart, and the Breast: Bodily Conceptions of Emotion and Cognition in Old Norse Skaldic Poetry","authors":"Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir","doi":"10.1484/j.vms.5.118630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.118630","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123617169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aquitanian Viking Connections: The 840s and the Question of the Mullaghboden Silver Coins","authors":"S. Lewis","doi":"10.1484/j.vms.5.118634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.118634","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123259965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecclesiastical Government,carte blanche: Filling out Forms inLárentíus saga biskups","authors":"Joel D. Anderson","doi":"10.1484/j.vms.5.118629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.118629","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115485510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The most elementary definition of ideology is probably the well-known phrase from Marx’s Capital : ‘ Sie wissen das nicht, aber sie tun es’ — ‘they do not know it, but they are doing it ’. The very concept of ideology implies a kind of basic naiveté : the misrecognition of its own presuppositions. Abstract: Is it possible for characters in fiction to be motivated by unique ideologies in the way that political movements are in real life? This essay considers the example of the Æsir (the dominant tribe of gods) in Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda . Analogies with later ideologies are offered as a way to highlight the idiosyncratic ideological brew which seems to govern the Æsir’s actions. The Æsir have the acquisitiveness, violence, and sexual neurosis of a colonial regime. They have the reactionary’s aptitude for cynical manipulation of history. They have the frailties of the modern capitalist. These comparisons are used to sketch out an ideology which is more than the sum of its comparanda: Æsirism. (Finnmark is very wide. The sea runs from the west and adjoining it there are large fjords. It is the same way to the north and all the way to the east. And Norway is to the south, and the borderlands encompass nearly all the south, just like outer Hålogaland. And east from Numedal comes Jämtland, and then Hälsingland and then Kvenland, then Finland, then Karelia. And Finnmark sits atop all these countries and there are huge mountainous counties up in the marches, some [counties] in the valleys, and some alongside the lakes. In Finnmark there are very large lakes and next to the lakes large borderlands, and tall mountains run from one end of the marches to the other, which are called Kjølen.) Snorri seems to combine aspects of both the Norwegian legal concept of the griðastaðr , as an occasion of heightened sensitivity to misdeeds, and the Church concept of asylum, where none may be punished. Both of these influences would situate the sanctuary he imagines in the Middle Ages rather than in mythic prehistory. Indeed, his use of griðastaðr looks like a rather feeble attempt to explain the lack of immediate vengeance when Baldr is struck down.
意识形态最基本的定义可能是马克思《资本论》中那句著名的话:“Sie wissen das night, aber Sie tun es”——“他们不知道,但他们正在这么做”。意识形态这个概念本身就隐含着一种基本的天真:对自己预设的错误认识。摘要:小说中的人物是否有可能像现实生活中的政治运动那样,受到独特的意识形态的驱动?本文以斯图鲁森的散文《埃达》中的Æsir(占统治地位的神族)为例。与后来的意识形态进行类比是为了强调似乎支配Æsir行为的特殊意识形态酿造。Æsir具有殖民政权的占有欲、暴力和性神经官能症。他们具有反动派玩世不恭地篡改历史的才能。他们有现代资本主义的弱点。这些比较被用来勾勒出一种意识形态,这种意识形态不仅仅是其比较的总和:Æsirism。芬兰非常宽。大海从西边奔流而来,与之毗邻的是大峡湾。往北走和往东走都是一样的。挪威在南面,边境地带几乎覆盖了整个南部,就像外海陆一样。从Numedal往东是Jämtland,然后是Hälsingland,然后是Kvenland,然后是芬兰,然后是卡累利阿。芬兰马克位于所有这些国家的顶端,在山脉上有很多多山的县,有些在山谷里,有些在湖边。在芬兰马克有很大的湖泊,湖的旁边是大片的边界地带,高大的山脉从行军的一端延伸到另一端,这些山脉被称为Kjølen。Snorri似乎结合了挪威关于grii - asta - r的法律概念和教会关于庇护的概念,前者是对不法行为高度敏感的场合,后者没有人会受到惩罚。这两种影响都将他想象中的圣所置于中世纪,而不是神话中的史前时期。事实上,他使用gri / asta / r似乎是在试图解释巴尔德被击倒后没有立即复仇。
{"title":"In Pursuit of an Æsirist Ideology","authors":"R. Cole","doi":"10.1484/j.vms.5.118631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.118631","url":null,"abstract":"The most elementary definition of ideology is probably the well-known phrase from Marx’s Capital : ‘ Sie wissen das nicht, aber sie tun es’ — ‘they do not know it, but they are doing it ’. The very concept of ideology implies a kind of basic naiveté : the misrecognition of its own presuppositions. Abstract: Is it possible for characters in fiction to be motivated by unique ideologies in the way that political movements are in real life? This essay considers the example of the Æsir (the dominant tribe of gods) in Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda . Analogies with later ideologies are offered as a way to highlight the idiosyncratic ideological brew which seems to govern the Æsir’s actions. The Æsir have the acquisitiveness, violence, and sexual neurosis of a colonial regime. They have the reactionary’s aptitude for cynical manipulation of history. They have the frailties of the modern capitalist. These comparisons are used to sketch out an ideology which is more than the sum of its comparanda: Æsirism. (Finnmark is very wide. The sea runs from the west and adjoining it there are large fjords. It is the same way to the north and all the way to the east. And Norway is to the south, and the borderlands encompass nearly all the south, just like outer Hålogaland. And east from Numedal comes Jämtland, and then Hälsingland and then Kvenland, then Finland, then Karelia. And Finnmark sits atop all these countries and there are huge mountainous counties up in the marches, some [counties] in the valleys, and some alongside the lakes. In Finnmark there are very large lakes and next to the lakes large borderlands, and tall mountains run from one end of the marches to the other, which are called Kjølen.) Snorri seems to combine aspects of both the Norwegian legal concept of the griðastaðr , as an occasion of heightened sensitivity to misdeeds, and the Church concept of asylum, where none may be punished. Both of these influences would situate the sanctuary he imagines in the Middle Ages rather than in mythic prehistory. Indeed, his use of griðastaðr looks like a rather feeble attempt to explain the lack of immediate vengeance when Baldr is struck down.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116539865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Norse Nightingale: The Circulation of Music and Writing in Strengleikar","authors":"K. Heslop","doi":"10.1484/j.vms.5.118632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.118632","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115311394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper takes a fresh look at the use of judicial violence in the societies of Viking-Age England and Scandinavia. Using interdisciplinary methodologies, it considers legal, historical, literary...
{"title":"DIFFERENT STROKES : JUDICIAL VIOLENCE IN VIKING-AGE ENGLAND AND SCANDINAVIA","authors":"K. Ruiter, S. Ashby","doi":"10.1484/j.vms.5.116393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.116393","url":null,"abstract":"This paper takes a fresh look at the use of judicial violence in the societies of Viking-Age England and Scandinavia. Using interdisciplinary methodologies, it considers legal, historical, literary...","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125401425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper uses evidence from a variety of disciplines in order to re-evaluate an apparently enigmatic event reported in several early sources – the landing of a Viking force at Fulham in 878. It examines the vocabulary of written accounts of their activities, sets archaeological evidence for a military camp at the site within a wider context, and gives further consideration to the strategic background of that location within a military landscape. These combined approaches, it is argued, allow a more detailed picture of this Viking war-band and its military significance to emerge.
{"title":"Fulham 878–79: A New Consideration of Viking Manoeuvres","authors":"John Baker, Stuart Brookes","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.1.103193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.1.103193","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses evidence from a variety of disciplines in order to re-evaluate an apparently enigmatic event reported in several early sources – the landing of a Viking force at Fulham in 878. It examines the vocabulary of written accounts of their activities, sets archaeological evidence for a military camp at the site within a wider context, and gives further consideration to the strategic background of that location within a military landscape. These combined approaches, it is argued, allow a more detailed picture of this Viking war-band and its military significance to emerge.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114506418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Putting women in their place? Gender and landscape in Iceland's national medieval colonisation narrative.","authors":"Chris Callow","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.1.102612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.1.102612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129503632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Making of Hávamál","authors":"J. Mckinnell","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.2.302720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.2.302720","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121051354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article analyses an episode from the late thirteenth-century Eyrbyggja saga using Mary Douglas’s theories concerning correlations between purity and pollution beliefs and forms of socio-political organization. The episode involves the foundation by Þorolfr Mostrarskegg, a migrant from Norway, of Iceland’s first þing, described as a cultic site as well as legal assembly. To safeguard the þing’s sanctity, Þorolfr designates a small island as a Dritsker, or ‘Waste-Skerry’, to which attendees must wade in order to defecate. The saga further describes the Þorsnessþing’s relocation and reorganization after the original site is contaminated when other early settlers refuse to use Dritsker and blood is spilled on the assembly grounds. While scholars have tended to dismiss this story as an example of the trivial matters that could instigate feud in early Iceland, excrement and blood are here treated as crucial elements of a myth of origins for Icelandic society, in which attempts to construct the body politic...
{"title":"PURITY AND DANGER IN EARLIEST ICELAND: EXCREMENT, BLOOD, SACRED SPACE, AND SOCIETY IN EYRBYGGJA SAGA","authors":"Kevin J. Wanner","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.1.100679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.1.100679","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses an episode from the late thirteenth-century Eyrbyggja saga using Mary Douglas’s theories concerning correlations between purity and pollution beliefs and forms of socio-political organization. The episode involves the foundation by Þorolfr Mostrarskegg, a migrant from Norway, of Iceland’s first þing, described as a cultic site as well as legal assembly. To safeguard the þing’s sanctity, Þorolfr designates a small island as a Dritsker, or ‘Waste-Skerry’, to which attendees must wade in order to defecate. The saga further describes the Þorsnessþing’s relocation and reorganization after the original site is contaminated when other early settlers refuse to use Dritsker and blood is spilled on the assembly grounds. While scholars have tended to dismiss this story as an example of the trivial matters that could instigate feud in early Iceland, excrement and blood are here treated as crucial elements of a myth of origins for Icelandic society, in which attempts to construct the body politic...","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127074075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}