This article discusses magic as it appears in the corpus of the Postola sogur. It suggests that such texts’ descriptions of magic are subordinated to discursive demands rather than empirical accuracy.
{"title":"Magic and Discourses of Magic in the Old Norse Sagas of the Apostles","authors":"N. Meylan","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.1.102617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.1.102617","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses magic as it appears in the corpus of the Postola sogur. It suggests that such texts’ descriptions of magic are subordinated to discursive demands rather than empirical accuracy.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"10 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":"124937797","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 examines the depictions of royal luck in three sagas of Olafr Tryggvason. In existing scholarship Old Norse concepts of luck defy clear definition, having been read variously as Christian and pagan; abstract and concrete; individual and societal; predetermined and serendipitous; innate and endowed from above. These apparent oppositions need not be mutually incompatible. Rather, the sagas discussed in this article approach these thematic concerns from multiple angles simultaneously. Since the texts are the products of an iterative tradition, notions of luck are shaped diachronically by layers of subjective ideology and idiosyncrasy, arising from multiple stages of authorial, editorial, and critical (re)interpretation.
{"title":"Re)visions of Royal Luck in the Sagas of Óláfr Tryggvason","authors":"C. Lal","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.5.105214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.5.105214","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the depictions of royal luck in three sagas of Olafr Tryggvason. In existing scholarship Old Norse concepts of luck defy clear definition, having been read variously as Christian and pagan; abstract and concrete; individual and societal; predetermined and serendipitous; innate and endowed from above. These apparent oppositions need not be mutually incompatible. Rather, the sagas discussed in this article approach these thematic concerns from multiple angles simultaneously. Since the texts are the products of an iterative tradition, notions of luck are shaped diachronically by layers of subjective ideology and idiosyncrasy, arising from multiple stages of authorial, editorial, and critical (re)interpretation.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"1 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":"125008296","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":"Burial Rods and Charcoal Graves: New Light on Old Burial Practices","authors":"Kristina Jonsson","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.2.302719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.2.302719","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"153 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":"127421299","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 explores runic literacy in medieval Norway by focusing on the medieval use of runes in churches. The church as an arena of communication generates interaction and overlap between the public and the private, the authorized and unauthorized, the ceremonial and the casual. Runic inscriptions and other forms of graffiti occur both inside and outside Norwegian stave and stone churches. In this article they are examined with regard to their production, presence, and potential reception in the church setting. The functions and meanings of the runic inscriptions within the religious and social space of the church are brought to the fore. The corpus of church inscriptions contributes towards an enhanced understanding of runic textual practices in the Middle Ages.
{"title":"Words in Wood and Stone: Uses of Runic Writing in Medieval Norwegian Churches","authors":"Kristel Zilmer","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.5.112423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.5.112423","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores runic literacy in medieval Norway by focusing on the medieval use of runes in churches. The church as an arena of communication generates interaction and overlap between the public and the private, the authorized and unauthorized, the ceremonial and the casual. Runic inscriptions and other forms of graffiti occur both inside and outside Norwegian stave and stone churches. In this article they are examined with regard to their production, presence, and potential reception in the church setting. The functions and meanings of the runic inscriptions within the religious and social space of the church are brought to the fore. The corpus of church inscriptions contributes towards an enhanced understanding of runic textual practices in the Middle Ages.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"12 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":"129296429","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":"Thresholds and Passages: The Meanings of Bridges and Crossings in the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages","authors":"Julie Lund","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.2.3017467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.2.3017467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"97 12 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":"127999456","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 toponym Utgarðr, used as a singular place name in Snorra Edda, is often applied to an outer region or peripheral realm inhabited by giants and other monstrous entities. This leads to a concepti...
{"title":"The myth of Útgarðr - A toponym as a basis for an Old Norse system of values?","authors":"Lukas Rösli","doi":"10.1484/j.vms.5.114356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.114356","url":null,"abstract":"The toponym Utgarðr, used as a singular place name in Snorra Edda, is often applied to an outer region or peripheral realm inhabited by giants and other monstrous entities. This leads to a concepti...","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"18 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":"120977186","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}
It is well recognized that the use of formulae originally from the Hebrew language was not uncommon in the hymnody and liturgy of the medieval Church. This article surveys the protrusion of such formulae into Scandinavian runic inscriptions and postulates that there was a particular awareness of their Hebrew identity. The extent of clerical esteem for - and knowledge of - the Hebrew language in medieval Scandinavia is considered using runic and manuscript sources. Finally, some observations are offered concerning the geographical distribution of Hebrew formulae in the runic corpus.
{"title":"Hebrew in Runic Inscriptions and Elsewhere","authors":"R. Cole","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.5.109599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.5.109599","url":null,"abstract":"It is well recognized that the use of formulae originally from the Hebrew language was not uncommon in the hymnody and liturgy of the medieval Church. This article surveys the protrusion of such formulae into Scandinavian runic inscriptions and postulates that there was a particular awareness of their Hebrew identity. The extent of clerical esteem for - and knowledge of - the Hebrew language in medieval Scandinavia is considered using runic and manuscript sources. Finally, some observations are offered concerning the geographical distribution of Hebrew formulae in the runic corpus.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"15 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":"121469315","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":"Scenes of Island Encounters in Icelandic Sagas: Reflections of Cultural Memory","authors":"Kristel Zilmer","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.1.100313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.1.100313","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"98 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":"115768821","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 location of Eric the Red’s farmstead of Brattahlið in Greenland’s Eastern Settlement has long been debated. Following investigations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was later concluded that it lay in the modern settlement of Qassiarsuk. A contrary view has been propounded by Ole Guldager who has suggested that a Norse ruin group at Qinngua, at the top of Eiriksfjorðr (Tunulliarfik fjord), is a more likely location. This paper presents new palaeoenvironmental evidence involving pollen analysis and landscape history, together with a consideration of settlement structure culminating in the excavation of a putative church site, and suggests that wherever Eric’s farm was located, it was probably not at Qinngua.
Red埃里克位于格陵兰东部定居点Brattahlið的农场的位置一直存在争议。经过18和19世纪的调查，后来得出结论，它位于现代的卡西亚苏克定居点。Ole Guldager提出了一个相反的观点，他认为位于eiriksfjoror or (Tunulliarfik峡湾)顶部的qingua的北欧遗址群更有可能是一个地点。本文提出了新的古环境证据，包括花粉分析和景观历史，以及对聚落结构的考虑，最终发现了一个假定的教堂遗址，并表明无论埃里克的农场位于何处，它都可能不在秦瓜。
{"title":"Was Erik the Red’s Brattahlið Located at Qinngua? A Dissenting View","authors":"K. Edwards, J. Schofield, J. Arneborg","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.1.102137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.1.102137","url":null,"abstract":"The location of Eric the Red’s farmstead of Brattahlið in Greenland’s Eastern Settlement has long been debated. Following investigations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was later concluded that it lay in the modern settlement of Qassiarsuk. A contrary view has been propounded by Ole Guldager who has suggested that a Norse ruin group at Qinngua, at the top of Eiriksfjorðr (Tunulliarfik fjord), is a more likely location. This paper presents new palaeoenvironmental evidence involving pollen analysis and landscape history, together with a consideration of settlement structure culminating in the excavation of a putative church site, and suggests that wherever Eric’s farm was located, it was probably not at Qinngua.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"7 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":"130701636","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}
In 1920 the Swedish historian Gottfrid Carlsson argued that Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, the leader of the Swedish revolt against King Erik of Pomerania, was venerated as a saint in medieval Sweden. ...
{"title":"Was There a Cult of ‘Saint Engelbrekt’?","authors":"A. Scheglov","doi":"10.1484/j.vms.5.116394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.116394","url":null,"abstract":"In 1920 the Swedish historian Gottfrid Carlsson argued that Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, the leader of the Swedish revolt against King Erik of Pomerania, was venerated as a saint in medieval Sweden. ...","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"14 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":"130853798","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}
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