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This anthology of international scholarship offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources, including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North. This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.
Publication Date
3-2-2020
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications
City
Kalamazoo
ISBN
9781501513862
Keywords
Paranormal, medieval Iceland, Iceland, sagas, paranormal activity
Disciplines
European History | Medieval Studies | Scandinavian Studies
Citation for Published Book
Jakobsson, Ármann and Miriam Mayburd, eds. Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150-1400. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020.
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