The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature

Males, Mikael

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“…In vernacular poetry, on the other hand, the clerical poets of the 13th century strove in the opposite direction, towards a clearer and more immediately intelligible diction than the one practiced in traditional skaldic poetry, and systematized in the Snorra Edda. In rebelling against the "eddulist" (the art of the Edda), these poets cite as precedence the rules of the 'new poetry', advocated by Geoffrey of Vinsauf in his Poetria nova a century earlier (Males 2020). Although the "Lilja" (Lilly), a prime example of this new and attractive vernacular style in poetry, is most often attributed to Eysteinn Ásgrímsson (d. 1361), an Augustinian canon of Þykkvibaer in Ver, in the south of Iceland, the abbot of Þingeyrar Arngrímr Brandsson's "Guðmundarkvaedi", a praise poem composed in 1345 in honor of the aforementioned Bishop Guðmundr the Good, is very much nourished from the same poetic vain as the "Lilja".…”

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Þingeyrar Abbey in Northern Iceland: A Benedictine Powerhouse of Cultural Heritage

Jensson

2021

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Þingeyrar Abbey was founded in 1133 and dissolved in the wake of the Lutheran Reformation (1550), to virtually disappear with time from the face of the earth. Although highly promising archeological excavations are under way, our material points of access to this important monastic foundation are still only a handful of medieval artifacts. However, throughout its medieval existence Þingeyrar Abbey was an inordinately large producer of Latin and Icelandic literature. We have the names of monastic authors, poets, translators, compilators, and scribes, who engaged creatively with such diverse subjects as Christian hagiography, contemporary history, and Norse mythology, skillfully amalgamating all of this into a coherent, imaginative whole. Thus, Þingeyrar Abbey has a prominent place in the creation and preservation of the Icelandic Eddas and Sagas that have shaped the Northern European cultural memory. Despite the dissolution of monastic libraries and wholesale destruction of Icelandic-Latin manuscripts through a mixture of Protestant zealotry and parchment reuse, philologists have been able to trace a number of surviving codices and fragments back to Þingeyrar Abbey. Ultimately, however, our primary points of access to the fascinating world of this remote Benedictine community remain immaterial, a vast corpus of medieval texts edited on the basis of manuscript copies at unknown degrees of separation from the lost originals.

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Þingeyrar Abbey in Northern Iceland: A Benedictine Powerhouse of Cultural Heritage

Jensson

2021

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“The fair draught of Óðinn”

Eggertsdóttir

2021

European Journal of Scandinavian Studies

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Icelandic poets in the 16th and 17th century had great interest in formal features such as rhyme, kennings, and periphrasis. Rímur poets made use of Eddic diction and imagery but the use of kennings was not limited to rímur; it can also be found in other kinds of poetry. Baroque delight in periphrasis and metrical complexity ensured a favorable reception for the renewed interest in dróttkvætt measure, with its aurally intriguing rhymes and complex kennings. The paper discusses the use of kennings and the connection between kennings, riddles and metaphors and also between kennings and Eddic and classical myths.

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The End of the Commonwealth

Pálsson

2024

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The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature

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Þingeyrar Abbey in Northern Iceland: A Benedictine Powerhouse of Cultural Heritage

Þingeyrar Abbey in Northern Iceland: A Benedictine Powerhouse of Cultural Heritage

“The fair draught of Óðinn”

The End of the Commonwealth

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