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SuMMARy
this article is a revised version of a paper I presented to the symposium Nordic
Civilization in the Medieval World held at Skálholt in September 2007. I was asked
to address the theme of Medieval Icelandic Textual Culture in a workshop whose
theme was ‘The world-view reflected in texts and practices’. The article surveys the
debts of medieval Icelandic textual culture to both indigenous and non­indigenous
traditions and suggests ways in which Icelanders showed their awareness that their
culture was part of the mainstream medieval European culture of Christendom as
well as at the same time maintaining an indigenously inflected vernacular tradition
within which literary innovation could and did take place. It reviews the very large
range of textual kinds produced in Iceland during the Middle Ages, both in poetry
and prose, and builds up a map of Icelandic cultural interests and activities in the
context of medieval european civilisation.
Margaret Clunies Ross
University of Sydney
margaret.clunies­ross@sydney.edu.au
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