Snorrastofa series V

Snorres Edda – i europeisk og islandsk kultur (2009)

Editor: Jon Gunnar Jørgensen, professor in Nordic studies at the University of Oslo.

The book was published in December 2009.

 

 

 

The reasearch network Reykholt and European literacy hosted conferences in Reykholt annually in the years 2002 - 2006. In October 2005 the fourth symposium was held in Snorrastofa.

This book contains articles from the conference where the subject was Snorri Sturluson’s Edda in light of European and Icelandic culture.

 

Many associate Snorri‘s Edda with mythological stories, but primarily the text is about Norse poetics. With its three main sections the Edda is logically and pedagogically organized as a textbook in poetry. The purpose of this book is to shed light on how Snorri’s Edda reflects a European aspect in Icelandic writing culture, as well as being a result of an Icelandic cultural environment.

 

The articles are written in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and English.

 

Snorres Edda i europeisk og islandsk kulturcan be ordered directly from Snorrastofa at snorrastofa@snorrastofa.is

 

Price: 4.800 ISK

 

 

Contents:

 

Jon Gunnar Jørgensen:

 

 Introduction

Karl G. Johansson:

 

1300-talets lärda kultur. Poetik och praxis från Lilja till Háttalykill Lopts Guttormssonar

 

Torfi H. Tulinius:

Pierre  Bourdieu and Snorri Sturluson. Chieftains, sociology and the development of literature in medieval Iceland?

 

Mats Malm:

 

 Varför heter det kenning?

Henning Kure: 

Geden, hjorten og Læráðr – eller hvordan man befrier nordisk mytologi fra Snorris Edda

 

Jón Karl Helgason: 

Omkring Snorres poetikk. Skaldskapens rolle i Vafþrúðnismál og Snorra Edda

 

Baldur Hafstað:   

Egils saga og Snorres Edda – Nogle spørgsmål vedrørende Snorres arbejdsmetoder og indflydelse

 

Judith Jesch:

The Orcadian links of Snorri’s Edda

 

 

Snorrastofas Publications