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Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400: (The Northern Medieval World)


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This anthology of international scholarship offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources, including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North. This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Paranormal Encounter Part 1: Experiencing the Paranormal “I see Dead People”: The Externalization of Paranormal Experience in Medieval Iceland by Ármann Jakobsson It was a Dark and Stormy Night: Haunted Saga Homesteads, Climate Fluctuations, and the Vulnerable Self by Miriam Mayburd Happy Endings: The (Para)normality of Miracles by Ásdís Egilsdóttir Þórgunna’s Dinner and Other Medieval Liminal Meals: Food as Mediator between this World and the Hereafter by Andrea Maraschi A Troll Did It?: Trauma as a Paranormal State in the Íslendingasögur by Marion Poilvez Traversing the Uncanny Valley: Glámr in Narratological Space by Sarah Bienko Eriksen On the Threshold: The Liminality of Doorways by Anna Katharina Heiniger The Burial of Body Parts in Old Icelandic Grágás by Sean B. Lawing Paranormal Prose: “Para-Narrative” and Ice in the Icelandic Sagas by Daniel C. Remein Part II: Figures of the Paranormal Encounters with Hliðskjálf in Old Norse Mythology by Andrew McGillivray “Ok flýgr þat jafnan”: Icelandic Figurations of Böðvarr bjarki’s Monster by Sandra Bailiff Straubhaar Demons, Muslims, Wrestling Champions: The Semantic History of Blámenn from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century by Arngrímur Vídalin The New Faith vs. the Undead: Christmas Showdowns by Kent Pettit Following up on Female fylgjur: A Re-Examination of the Concept of Female fylgjur in Old Icelandic Literature by Zuzana Stankovitsová Dólgr í byggðinni: Meeting the Social Monster in the Sagas of Icelanders by Rebecca Merkelbach Part III: Literature and the Paranormal Even a Henchman Can Dream: Dreaming at the Margins in Brennu-Njálssaga by Christopher Crocker A Normal Relationship?: Jarl Hákon and Þorgeðr Hǫlgabrabrúðr in Icelandic Literary Context by Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir Priest Ketill’s Quest in Rome by Gunnvör S. Karlsdóttir “Darraðarljóð” and Its Context within Njál’s saga: Sorcery, Vision, Leizla? by Ingibjörg Eyþórsdóttir Paranormal Tendencies in the Sagas: A Discussion about Genre by Martina Ceolin Reading the Landscape in Grettis saga: Þórhallur, the meinvættur, and Glámur by Shaun F. D. Hughes Trolling Guðmundr: Paranormal Defamation in Ljósvetninga saga by Yoav Tirosh “Meir af viel en karlmennsku”: Monstrous Masculinity in Viktors saga ok Blávus by Védís Ragnheiðardóttir Index

About the Author :
Ármann Jakobsson and Mariusz Mayburd, University of Iceland, Reykjavík. Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland, Reykjavík; Mariusz Mayburd, University of Iceland, Reykjavík.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781580443296
  • Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Medieval Institute Publications
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 445
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 892 gr
  • ISBN-10: 158044329X
  • Publisher Date: 23 Mar 2020
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: The Northern Medieval World
  • Width: 155 mm


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