Body and Soul in Old Norse Culture

Eriksen, Stefka G.

doi:10.1484/m.disput-eb.5.110531

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“…The first dialogue is a translation of the Old French poem Un Samedi par nuit, preserved in the Old Norse Homily Book from c. 1220 (AM 619 4to), while the second dialogue is a translation of Hugh of Saint Victor's Soliloquium de arrha animae, preserved in the Icelandic manuscript Hauksbók, from the beginning of the fourteenth century. Even though both dialogues are translations, they may be read and interpreted as products of their new Norse target-context, blending elements introduced by their European source texts with local Norse cultural horizons, as promoted by the contention in contemporary translation theory (Toury 1995;Eriksen 2016).…”

Section: The Conception Of a Stable Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitive Approaches to Old Norse Literature

Eriksen¹,

Turner²

2020

Approaches to the Medieval Self

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The aim of this article is to rethink the relationship between cognitive sciences and the humanities, based on studies of Old Norse literary tradition. Old Norse literature includes many of the traditional medieval genres in translations, such as saints' lives, historiographies, romances, and chansons de geste. Yet it also includes genres like the Sagas of Icelanders, skaldic poetry, and eddic poetry, which are deemed distinct from other medieval literatures. By discussing (1) creativity and cultural diversity; (2) stories-creation and blending; (3) the continuity in the sense of self; and (4) making choices, from the perspective of cognitive sciences and with examples from the Old Norse literary corpus, this article aims to elucidate the potential for complementarity between the two fields.

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Section: The Conception Of a Stable Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%