Thou fearful guest
Subtitle: addressing the past in four tales in Flateyjarbók
By: Merrill Kaplan
Series: FF communications -- no. 301 = v. 148; FF communications -- no. 301
Publisher: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9789514110689
Subjects: Kings and rulers; History and criticism; Sagas; Flateyjarbók
Description: A stranger appears at the court of a Norwegian king known best for bringing Christianity to the North. Variations of this scene appearfour times in the fourteenth-century manuscript Flateyjarbók. Thou Fearful Guest analyzes how these episodes create meaning by their connections to custom, law, myth, discourses of historical and spiritual truth, typological understandings of time, and the historical context of the manuscript in which they appear. Thou Fearful Guest explores how and to what end medieval Icelanders thought about tales of heathen gods and heroes. -- Publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements --; title: A note on orthography --; title: Prologue -- -- I. Boundaries; title: Time and narrative --; title: Unwelcome at the threshold -- -- II. Witnesses; title: Corpus and history --; title: Interrogating the text --; title: Landscape and memory -- -- III. Echoes; title: Óðinn and O̜gvaldsnes --; title: Der Zauberspiegel --; title: Epilogue --; title: Sources --; title: Index.