The Other Sagas. A New Reading of the ‘Post-Classical’ Sagas of Icelanders

其他传奇。

• 批准号: 400154111
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Rebecca Merkelbach
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung Skandinavistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/400154111?language=en
• 关键词: Other; Sagas.; New; Reading; Post

Because of saga scholarship’s focus on the "classical", thirteenth-century Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), the so-called "post-classical" sagas, dated to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as well as other saga genres have not been studied adequately. However, while changing attitudes have recently resulted in new approaches to these other genres, the "post-classical" Íslendingasögur are still one of the most neglected sub-genres of medieval Icelandic literature. These sagas have often been characterised as lacking interest in the social concerns prominent in the ‘classical’ sagas. Instead, they have been argued to depict a dichotomy between an exaggerated hero figure and episodically appearing paranormal opponents. Recently, however, Daniel Sävborg has called into question the dating-based approach to these supposedly late sagas. This opens up the possibility to revise other preconceptions about these sagas as well, especially concerning their lack of a social dimension and their focus on the paranormal. This project aims to finally give full attention to a sub-genre comprising more than a third of the Íslendingasögur genre, and to reassess the notion that the ‘post-classical’ sagas lack social interest. Rather than assuming a dichotomy of hero vs. paranormal, a triangular relationship between the individual, the paranormal and the social will be argued to underlie saga composition. Each of these aspects will be considered in turn, as well as those cases in which the boundaries between them collapse. Ultimately, this will enable a reading of these texts as integrated in their socio-cultural background. Thus, the project falls into two parts: the first part, in which the texts themselves will be read in light of their characters and their interactions, and the second part, in which they will be situated in the background of late medieval Iceland, and in which the real-world concerns that found their reflection in the story-worlds of the ‘post-classical’ sagas will be considered.This thorough reassessment of the narratives, the interactions between characters and their social context will ultimately lead to a fuller understanding of the Íslendingasögur as a whole. It will also provide a new way of reading saga literature by considering the intersections between aspects, most prominently the paranormal and the social, that have so far been considered essentially separate.

由于佐贺学术研究的重点是“古典”，十三世纪冰岛人的传奇（Sagslendingasögur），所谓的“后古典”传奇，可追溯到十四和十五世纪，以及其他佐贺流派没有得到充分的研究。然而，虽然最近改变的态度导致了对这些其他流派的新方法，但“后古典”冰岛文学仍然是中世纪冰岛文学中最被忽视的子流派之一。这些传奇通常被描述为对“古典”传奇中突出的社会问题缺乏兴趣。相反，他们被认为描绘了一个夸张的英雄人物和偶尔出现的超自然对手之间的二分法。然而，最近，丹尼尔·塞夫堡对这些被认为是晚期的传奇的基于年代的方法提出了质疑。这也为修正关于这些传奇的其他偏见提供了可能性，特别是关于它们缺乏社会维度和对超自然现象的关注。这个项目的目的是最终充分关注一个子类型，包括超过三分之一的传奇类型，并重新评估“后古典”传奇缺乏社会兴趣的概念。与其假设英雄与超自然现象的二分法，个人，超自然现象和社会之间的三角关系将被认为是佐贺组成的基础。我们将依次考虑这些方面，以及它们之间的界限崩溃的情况。最终，这将使阅读这些文本作为其社会文化背景的整合。因此，项目福尔斯分为两部分：第一部分，文本本身将根据其人物及其相互作用进行阅读，第二部分，它们将位于中世纪晚期冰岛的背景下，并将考虑在“后古典”传奇故事世界中反映的现实世界问题。人物与其社会背景之间的互动将最终导致对整个“无主之地”的更全面的理解。它还将提供一种新的阅读佐贺文学的方式，通过考虑方面之间的交叉点，最突出的是超自然和社会，迄今为止一直被认为是基本上分开的。