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Medieval Icelandic Bodies in Tristram Ok Ísodd

by Karen Lurkhur
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780935995305
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cornell University Library
  • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Library
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 174
  • Original Price: USD 65.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 404 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Medieval

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in "Tristram ok �sodd" examines the depiction of the bodies of the two main characters in the Icelandic version of the Tristan romance, the Saga af Tristram ok �sodd, through the lens of the �slendingas�gur, the classic sagas of the early Icelanders. Although its origins are somewhat unclear, the Saga af Tristram ok �sodd derives, ultimately, from Thomas's Anglo-Norman Tristran and was composed under the influence of the Old Norse translation, in 1226, of the Anglo-Norman original. Nonetheless, this version "deviates, sometimes rather startlingly, from its Old Norse inspiration," leading some scholars to consider it "an inept retelling" if not "a deliberate satire."

In this book, Karen Lurkhur proposes that certain "outlandish features" of the Icelandic romance, such as its treatment of Tristram's various wounds and its erotic devaluation of �sodd, may be attributed to the not always successful attempt of the anonymous author to transpose Thomas's Old French romance of adultery and incest into the moral register of the sagas.

Karen Lurkhur is currently an instructor at York University in Toronto in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a doctorate in Comparative and World Literatures. She has previously published articles on medieval constructions of the body in Old French romance and in the Icelandic version of the Tristan romance.

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