Descrizione del progetto
Comprendere il ruolo degli scribi nella poesia norrena antica
La poesia norrena antica, in particolare quella eddica, è un contributo letterario della Scandinavia al patrimonio europeo. Si compone di tre tipi di metri allitterativi, ciascuno con regole specifiche per quanto riguarda il peso delle sillabe e la collocazione delle sillabe non sottolineate. La raccolta poetica, tuttavia, è sopravvissuta attraverso una serie di copie manoscritte. Il progetto SUNEM, sostenuto dal programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, studierà come gli scribi hanno copiato e compreso le forme metriche della poesia eddica. Concentrandosi sulla saga di Hervarar, verranno esaminati i manoscritti sopravvissuti dal XIV al XVII secolo per valutare i cambiamenti nelle norme metriche durante il periodo tardo-nordico e il primo periodo moderno. La ricerca fornirà informazioni sui metri tradizionali norreni.
Obiettivo
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.
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinatore
0313 Oslo
Norvegia