The exempla in the manuscript AM 657 a-b 4°. Studies in cultural-historical contextualization of short prose narratives in late medieval Iceland

调查对象是14世纪手稿AM 657 a-b 4°，其中包含约80个例证，这是中世纪冰岛保存下来的典范叙事的较大部分。它侧重于关于手稿的形式和内容的文学史重要性的问题。基本目标是确定个人叙事的来源，分析与接受欧洲大陆短篇小说有关的改编过程，评估该文集各个部分的创作方法和背景，以得出其功能(S)及其对14世纪冰岛文化和文学历史状况的意义。

Subject to the investigation is the fourteenth century manuscript AM 657 a-b 4° that contains about 80 exempla, being the bigger part of exemplary narrative that was preserved in medieval Iceland. It focuses on the question of the literary-historical importance of the manuscript with regard to its formation and content. The basic objectives are the identification of the sources the individual narratives derive from, the analysis of the adaptation process connected to the reception of continental short narratives and the evaluation of the ways of composition and contextualization of the individual parts of the collection in order to come to a conclusion about its function(s) and its significance for the cultural and literary-historical situation in fourteenth century Iceland.