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

待调查的是14世纪的手稿AM 657 a-b 4°，其中包含约80个样本，是中世纪冰岛保存的示范性叙事的较大部分。它侧重于手稿的形成和内容方面的文学历史重要性的问题。基本目标是确定个人叙事来源，分析与接受大陆短篇叙事有关的改编过程，并评估收集的各个部分的组成和背景化方式，以得出关于其功能及其对十四世纪冰岛文化和文学历史状况的意义的结论。

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.