Fast Goes the Fleeting Time: The Miscellaneous Concepts of Time in Different Old Norse Genres and their Causes

Kristýna Králová

doi:10.5771/9783831675999

Zusammenfassung

This work is concerned with time reckoning and perception in Old Norse culture. Based on an analysis of various prose and poetic works, the author reconstructs the native images of time, as well as their changes in relation to social development, namely the arrival of Christianity and feudalism to the North. The primary sources are divided into three groups. The first group comprises works that contain traces of the original domestic understanding of time, the „Poetic Edda“, „Snorri’s Edda“, legendary and family sagas. The second group includes different types of texts, all of which adopt foreign concepts of time that spread to Iceland especially through various learned treatises and the influence of the Church. Lastly, it is examined how foreign time reckoning and perception affected the temporal structure of kings’ and bishops’ sagas included in the third group of sources.

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Kristýna Králová (Department of Germanic studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University) focuses on the research of the Old Norse understanding of time and fate and their literary representations, including foreshadowing. She is also interested in modern literary adaptations of Old Norse motifs and led a project, the result of which was a monograph on this topic, containing among others chapters on Czech and Slovak adaptations. She also participated in a project researching popular literature in the Middle Ages, as part of which she contributed a chapter about popular features of the Old Norse „þættir“, which was included in the final monograph of the project.

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Münchner Nordistische Studien - Band 39

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Copyrightjahr: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8316-4826-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8316-7599-9
Verlag: utzverlag, München
Reihe: Münchner Nordistische Studien
Band: 39
Sprache: Deutsch
Seiten: 296
Produkttyp: Monographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 6
1. 1. 1.1. Physical approach Kein Zugriff
  2. 1.2. Literary approach Kein Zugriff
  3. 1.3. Sociological approach Kein Zugriff
2. 1. 1. 2.1.1. Pre-Christian time in medieval manuscripts? Kein Zugriff
  2. 2.2. Foreign systems of time reckoning arrive in the North Kein Zugriff
  3. 2.3. Blending of times: changes in the temporal structure of sagas Kein Zugriff
3. 1. 1. 3.1.1. Systems of dating and time indications Kein Zugriff
    2. 3.1.2. Narrative time and Genette’s categories Kein Zugriff
    3. 3.1.3. Foreshadowing in Old Norse literature Kein Zugriff
  2. 3.2. The literary representation of time versus the perception of time Kein Zugriff
  3. 1. 3.3.1. The arrival of Christianity in the North Kein Zugriff
    2. 3.3.2. The increase of royal power Kein Zugriff
1. 1. 4.1. The beginning of time Kein Zugriff
  2. 4.2. The essential role of night and the moon Kein Zugriff
  3. 4.3. The relations between the past, present and future Kein Zugriff
  4. 4.4. Ragnarǫk and the cyclical time of the world Kein Zugriff
2. 1. 5.1. Snorri’s Heiti stundanna Kein Zugriff
  2. 5.2. The names of months and the connection of time with its content Kein Zugriff
3. Summary I A: Time in Eddas Kein Zugriff
4. 1. 6.1. The legendary-heroic past: Between the mythical past and historical time Kein Zugriff
  2. 6.2. Systems of dating and time indications in legendary sagas Kein Zugriff
  3. 6.3. Specific features of narrative time in legendary sagas Kein Zugriff
5. Summary I B: Legendary-heroic time Kein Zugriff
6. 1. 1. 7.1.1. The connection with the present of the saga audience Kein Zugriff
  2. 7.2. Time indications in family sagas Kein Zugriff
  3. 7.3. Specific features of narrative time in family sagas Kein Zugriff
7. Summary I C: Time in family sagas Kein Zugriff
1. 8. Time in Rímbegla Kein Zugriff
2. 1. 9.1. Systems of dating in Íslendingabók Kein Zugriff
  2. 9.2. Systems of dating in Landnámabók Kein Zugriff
3. 1. 10.1. Dating formulas in Diplomatarium Norvegicum and Islandicum Kein Zugriff
4. Summary II: Foreign time reckoning arrives in the North Kein Zugriff
1. 1. 11.1. Systems of dating in kings’ sagas Kein Zugriff
  2. 11.2. Other time indications in kings’ sagas Kein Zugriff
  3. 11.3. Specific features of narrative time in kings’ sagas Kein Zugriff
2. 1. 12.1. Systems of dating in bishops’ sagas Kein Zugriff
  2. 12.2. Other time indications in bishops’ sagas Kein Zugriff
  3. 12.3. Specific features of narrative time in bishops’ sagas Kein Zugriff
3. Summary III: The blending of times: Transformations of time reckoning and perception in kings’ and bishops’ sagas Kein Zugriff
4. 1. 13.1. The birth of an abstract concept of time Kein Zugriff
  2. 13.2. The replacement of genealogies with chronologies Kein Zugriff
  3. 13.3. The relations between the past, present and future Kein Zugriff
  4. 13.4. The final discussion: Fast goes the fleeting time Kein Zugriff
List of abbreviations Kein Zugriff Seiten 283 - 284
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 285 - 296