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Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic “Maríu saga” in Its Manuscript Contexts
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Daniel C. Najork
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of the saga provides two versions based on multiple manuscripts and prints significant variants in the notes, it does not preserve the literary and social contexts of those manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. This study restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the meaning of the text within its manuscript matrix, why it was copied in the specific manuscripts it was, and how it was read and used by the different communities that preserved the manuscripts.
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Daniel C. Najork, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Manuscript Variation in the Design and Contents of Maríu saga
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Chapter 2 Mary, Lítillæti (Humility), and Þolinmæði (Patience) in the Skálholt Lectionaries AM 234 fol. and AM 235 fol
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Chapter 3 Glossing “Myrku figurur”: Explicatory and Compilatory Techniques in the Manuscripts of Maríu saga
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Chapter 4 The Bodily Assumption of Mary and Theological Disagreement in Manuscript AM 232 fol
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Chapter 5 Last Things: Death, Judgment, and the Afterlife in the Manuscripts of Maríu saga
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Conclusion
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Appendix: The Manuscripts of Maríu saga
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
February 8, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9781501514142
Hardcover published on:
February 8, 2021
Hardcover ISBN:
9781501518539
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Front matter:
11
Main content:
163
Coloured Illustrations:
1
Audience(s) for this book
Medievalists, scholars of Old Norse and Religious Studies
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