Description du projet
Appréhender le rôle du scribe dans la poésie en vieux norrois
La poésie en vieux norrois, en particulier la poésie eddique, est la contribution littéraire de la Scandinavie au patrimoine européen. Elle est composée de trois types de mètres allitératifs, chacun avec des règles spécifiques concernant le poids des syllabes et l’emplacement des syllabes non accentuées. Le recueil poétique a néanmoins survécu grâce à une série de copies manuscrites. Soutenu par le programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, le projet SUNEM se propose d’étudier la manière dont les scribes ont copié et compris les formes métriques de la poésie eddique. Il examinera les manuscrits conservés du XIVe au XVIIe siècle, et plus particulièrement la saga d’Hervarar, afin d’évaluer les changements au sein des normes métriques au cours de la période du bas norrois et du début de l’époque moderne. Cette recherche permettra de mieux appréhender les mètres nordiques traditionnels.
Objectif
Old Norse poetry, particularly the corpus of narrative and gnomic verse known as Eddic poetry, forms one of the richest contributions from Scandinavia to the literary heritage of Europe. This poetic corpus survives only through a chain of manuscript copies which separate our extant texts from the original compositions. The aim of SUNEM is to investigate the changing understandings of metrical forms possessed by the scribes who copied and recopied Eddic poetry. Specifically, the project will create digital texts and metrical annotations of the poems in one particular source, Hervarar saga, and use the various surviving manuscripts of this work (14th-17th centuries) as a test-case to evaluate scribal engagement with metrical norms during the Late Norse and Early Modern periods. These poems are in three different alliterative metres, each of which shows specific rules concerning features such as syllable weight or the placement of unstressed syllables. As scribes make changes to the texts they copy, they are sometimes careful to continue to adhere to these rules, and sometimes disregard them. SUNEM will investigate these patterns of change with respect to these rules in order to assess copyists' varied understandings of and commtiments to older rules of Eddic metres. These models of how scribes copied Eddic texts and conceived of the poetic forms they reproduced will be of practical use to future editors of Norse poetry, extend our understandings of traditional Norse metres beyond the Classical Norse period, and provide new perspectives on the transmission of verse.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Appel à propositions
(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinateur
0313 Oslo
Norvège