Schreiben und Lesen im Altisländischen
Subtitle: Lexeme, syntagmatische Relationen und Konzepte in der "Jóns saga helga", "Sturlunga saga" und "Laurentius saga biskups"
By: Kevin Müller
Series: Beiträge zur nordischen Philologie -- Band 66; Beiträge zur nordischen Philologie -- 66. Bd.
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: ger
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9783772086946
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Sagas; History and criticism; Old Norse language; Written communication; Literacy; Historical linguistics
Description: The concepts of 'writing' and 'reading' differed in many ways in Old Icelandic. There were different languages, writing systems, materials, types of text, voices and frames. The people involved acted as writers, authors, readers, listeners or clients. In contrast, there are various verbs such as rita, rísta, skrifa, dikta, setja saman, lesa or sjá, which refer to specific aspects. It is therefore essential to know these concepts in order to research medieval literacy. Nevertheless, so far there have only been isolated analyzes of individual aspects, lexemes, texts and passages. The present work examines the vocabulary for the first time in a larger text corpus, which comprises three central source texts for the medieval Icelandic writing culture. The concepts are analyzed with the help of the syntagmatic relations, which map the semantic structures on the expression side. This enables a systematic consideration of the concepts and various aspects of medieval Icelandic writing.
Notes: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Zürich, 2017

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-291)