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El mundo nórdico medieval: una introducción
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Publicado bajo el sello editorial de Saemed, el volumen reúne trabajos de un grupo de especialistas que desarrollan su actividad en varias latitudes (Argentina, Brasil, España, Portugal, Reino Unido, Alemania) y que ofrecen una introducción a distintos aspectos de la cultura escandinava medieval: lengua, literatura en prosa y verso, cultura manuscrita, movimientos y contactos culturales, religión. Se trata de un emprendimiento inédito en español! Como afirma Patricia Pires Boulhosa en el prólogo, "[e]l esfuerzo de los académicos aquí reunidos ciertamente facilitará la investigación de muchos estudiantes que se interesan por el tema, y ojalá estimule el interés de muchos otros." El libro puede leerse y bajarse gratuitamente del sitio web de Saemed:http://saemed.org/pdf/ElMundoNordico1.pdf
This paper analyses the relationship between poetry and economics in Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, a long narrative work in prosimetrum form composed in Iceland during the first half of the 13th Century. The study assesses the role of versifying as an economic activity as well as it provides information about production, consumption and exchange in the poems of the saga. Furthermore, it considers the relationship between the material aspects of life as displayed both in the saga prose and in its poetry. The analysis suggests that both are generally congruent, and thus the saga provides the audience with a sense of narrative and ideological unity in regard to these economic matters.
This is the first published translation, in any language, of “Þjalar-Jóns saga”, a fantastic saga written in medieval Iceland. Along with the translation, an introduction presents the reader with key information on the saga: the debate over its generic status (between original riddarasaga and fornaldarsaga), shared motifs and intertextual links between it and “Konráðs saga keisarasonar” and “Jarlmanns saga ok Hermanns”, and some basic information on its manuscript preservation.
En este artículo buscamos analizar la peregrinación a Santiago mencionada en Hrafnsdrápa (“Encomio de Hrafn”), poema compuesto en Islandia durante la primera mitad del siglo XIII en honor al jefe local Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson. Comparando dicho poema con las obras en prosa sobre la vida de este jefe (las dos versiones de Hrafns saga), concluimos que el poema muestra un marcado énfasis en la devoción y habilidades de Hrafn, que lo distingue de otros líderes seculares islandeses de su época. Por otra parte, asociamos los motivos marítimos presentes en varias estrofas del drápa con una probable veneración de Hrafn por el apóstol, en tanto que patrón de los peregrinos. Por último, ofrecemos una traducción del poema a la lengua castellana en paralelo al texto en lengua nórdica antigua.
From the period of settlement (870–930) to the end of the fourteenth century, Icelanders produced one of the most varied and original literatures of medieval Europe. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social setting and across a range of genres. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new literary genre which textualised their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form. The book shows that Icelanders often used their textual abilities to gain themselves political and intellectual advantage, not least in the period when the state's freedom came to an end.
Njáls saga is acknowledged as the greatest of the Icelandic sagas, and it rightly deserves acclaim as one of the great masterpieces of all time. The author’s reading reveals not only the saga’s sublime artistry, but also its pragmatic and tough-minded analysis of the complex tactics and strategies that inform feud and law. Unforgettable fully-rounded characters abound—their motives, their inner lives subtly revealed by a narrator who describes motive and psychology in a way that mirrors how we understand them in our own lives: not by magical access into a person’s head, but by close observation of what they do, says, and how and when they do or say it. Nothing previously written even approaches the nuances of thought and action that the author shows to be right there in the text. His book makes the law accessible, and demonstrates how the saga reveals the economic constraints that limit or finance conflict. The author’s writing style entertains as well as instructs.
