Narration and Hero: Recounting the Deeds of Heroes in Literature and Art of the Early Medieval Period

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Narration and Hero

Recounting the Deeds of Heroes in Literature and Art of the Early Medieval Period

Edited by: Victor Millet and Heike Sahm

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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Volume 87 | Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde

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By the early middle ages vernacular aristocratic traditions of heroic narration were firmly established in Western and Northern Europe. Although there are regional, linguistic and formal differences, one can observe a number of similarities. Oral literature disseminates a range of themes that are shared by narratives in most parts of the continent. In all the European regions, this tradition of heroic narration came into contact with Christianity, which led to modifications. Similar processes of adaptation and transformation can be traced everywhere in this field of early European vernacular narrative. But with the increasing specialization of academic fields over the last half century, inter-disciplinary dialogue has become increasingly difficult. The volume is a contribution to renew the inter-disciplinary dialogue about common themes, topics and motifs in Nordic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Germanic literature, and about the different methodologies to explore them.

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Victor Millet, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Heike Sahm, University of Siegen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction/Einleitung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Conversational Skills for Heroes Roberta Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
Redeeming Beowulf. The Heroic Idiom as Marker of Quality in Old English Poetry Jennifer Neville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
The Fury of the Northmen and the Poetics of Violence Diana Whaley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
Fate and God, Gallows and Cross, Sword and Spear. The Variation of Counterconcepts as Part of the Poetic Diction in the Old Saxon Heliand Heike Sahm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
Negotiating Heroism and Humour in the Cattle-Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cuailnge) Hildegard L.C. Tristram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
Der monströse Heros oder Wenn der ungeheure Held zum Ungeheuer wird. Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte des Figuren-Typus ‚Drachenkämpfer‘ in der altnordischen und altenglischen Literatur Matthias Teichert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Held und Narrativ. Zur narrativen Funktion des Heros in der mittelalterlichen Literatur Udo Friedrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Deconstructing Snorri. Narrative Structure and Heroism in Eyrbyggja saga Torfi H. Tulinius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
Zwischen Hildebrand und Hadubrand. Held und Zeit im Hildebrandslied Hartmut Bleumer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
Deconstructing the Hero in Early Medieval Heroic Poetry Victor Millet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Giving and Receiving. The Integrity of the Hero in the Earliest Chansons de geste Marianne Ailes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
Helden und Schwerter. Durchschlagkraft und agency in heldenepischem Zusammenhang Anna Mühlherr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Die ‚Erzählung des Helden‘ in narrativen Passagen der Historia Langobardorum des Paulus Diaconus Wolfgang Haubrichs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Die mythische Vorgeschichte des Nibelungenhorts Wilhelm Heizmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
Christus und andere Helden. Bemerkungen zu einigen altenglischen Gedichten Ernst Hellgardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
Christus als Lichtbringer und Held. Polarität im Heliand und in zeitgenössischen Bildzeugnissen Harald Haferland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
Fremde Helden? Narrative Transcodierung und Konnexion des Nibelungenlieds im mittelniederländischen Nevelingenlied Bernd Bastert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	385
Svipdagsmál: Gender, Genre, and Reconstruction Joseph Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	403
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447

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eBook published on:

July 28, 2014

eBook ISBN:

9783110338157

Hardcover published on:

June 16, 2014

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110336139

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8

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449

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110338157

eBook ISBN: 9783110338157

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110336139

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Epos; Medieval Aristocracy

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