Navigare necesse est vivere non est4/6/2023 Old Icelandic Literature and Society, Cambridge University Press, 2000. (70-1400) and their relations to the literary production”, p. Bibliography: Meulengrachr Sørensen, Preben, “Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (c. Challenging the theory of a self-constructed isolated literature, we will reveal within the texts of the sagas how the different voices from the Viking Age are set to dialogue with its contemporary European text-context referent. If you want a gratuitous addendum, here's how Plutarch would have said it in Greek: Share Improve this answer Follow answered at 14:15 brianpck 37. It is this exceptional sociological and political situation, in contrast to the birth of European kingdoms, a great companion for the creation of a literature in terms of invention of tradition. Navigare is active infinitive: 'to sail.' The equivalent form of piscor is piscari. A courtly literature would have had no reception in a small farming population, organized far from a kingly structure. Considering it not as a solitary development rooted in ancient times, but as a “response” to its contemporary European scenery. Beyond the isolating terms implied in this conception, this “exceptional” character will be our actual matter of work. The explanation given by now to this paradox from a literary and sociological approach is to consider that an exceptional society, formed in exceptional circumstances, as is the case in medieval Iceland, produced an exceptional literature. Pre-Christian myths, Latin literature, old poetry and beliefs crystallized in the so called by Meulengracht Sørensen “paradox, of a copious and highly developed literature in a remote country”. The fundamental question of the invention of tradition in Iceland in the Middle Ages works as a trigger for the observation of the problematic involved in its literary production. The search for a cultural identity has a fundamental effect on the world of literary creation. The literary production in medieval Iceland becomes especially important when an antimonarchical, anti-courtly faction of intellectuals appears on the mostly monarchical European stage. The purpose of my paper is to analyse the influence of medieval European literature on the composition of the Icelandic Sagas.
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