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Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic "Maríu Saga" in Its Manuscript Contexts

Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic "Maríu Saga" in Its Manuscript Contexts

Najork, Daniel C.

Hardcover

Series: The Northern Medieval World

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismScandinavian History

ISBN10: 1501518534
ISBN13: 9781501518539
Publisher: Medieval Inst Pub
Published: Feb 8 2021
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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