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SUMMARY:Preserving a Violent Past: Politics and the Transmission of the Sa
 ga of Icelanders - Vicky Cribb (PhD Candidate in the Dept of Anglo-Saxon\,
  Norse and Celtic)
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DTEND:20101123T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Anke Plagnol
DESCRIPTION:One of the most remarkable literatures to emerge from any West
 ern country in the Middle Ages is the vast corpus of writing that was prod
 uced in Iceland\, a land as peripheral in the thirteenth century as it is 
 today. Many aspects of the Icelandic Commonwealth were anomalous in the me
 dieval period: for 400 years the Icelanders had no king\, and much of thei
 r literature was produced by powerful laymen rather than clerics. Thus boo
 ks probably had an important function as cultural capital in the political
  rivalry between chieftains. Using the example of the Saga of Icelanders\,
  the harrowing history of the Commonwealth’s downfall\, I will examine t
 he continuing role that politics has played in the genesis\, transmission 
 and study of early Icelandic literature.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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