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Res, Artes et Religio

Essays in Honour of Rudolf Simek

Edited by Sabine Heidi Walther, Regina Jucknies, Judith Meurer-Bongardt, Jens Eike Schnall

Res, Artes et Religio: Essays in Honour of Rudolf Simek. Edited by Sabine Heidi Walther, Regina Jucknies, Judith Meurer-Bongardt, Jens Eike Schnall, in collaboration with Brigitta Jaroschek, Sarah Onkels. Literature and Culture 1. Leeds: Kısmet Press, 2021.

Title: Res, Artes et Religio: Essays in Honour of Rudolf Simek
Editors: Sabine Heidi Walther, Regina Jucknies, Judith Meurer-Bongardt, Jens Eike Schnall, in collaboration with Brigitta Jaroschek, Sarah Onkels
Series: Literature and Culture
Series number: 1
Place of publication: Leeds
Publisher: Kısmet Press
Date of publication: 2021
ISBN 978-1-912801-09-1 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1-912801-10-7 (ebk)
xviii + 702 pages
235 x 191 mm

Copyright information

Copyright © 2021 Sabine Heidi Walther, Regina Jucknies, Judith Meurer-Bongardt, Jens Eike Schnall. The authors (Ásdís Egilsdóttir – Alessia Bauer – Karen Bek-Pedersen – Helmut Birkhan – Elke Brüggen – Kathrin Chlench-Priber – Klaus Düwel – Matthias Egeler – Frog – Leszek Gardeła – Peter Glasner – Gottskálk Jensson – Stefanie Gropper – Terry Gunnell – Rolf Heller – Regina Jucknies – Karina Kellermann – Peter Kern – Arnulf Krause – Gert Kreutzer – Wynfrid Kriegleder – Annette Lassen – John Lindow – Lorenzo Lozzi Gallo – Astrid Marner – John McKinnell – Jakub Morawiec – Else Mundal – Jan Alexander van Nahl – Judy Quinn – Maria Elena Ruggerini – Daniel Sävborg – Jens Peter Schjødt – Leszek P. Słupecki – Jiří Starý – Ana Suhr – Veronka Szőke – Matthias S. Toplak – Sabine Heidi Walther – Stefan Zimmer) retain copyright over their respective articles.

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About the book

Res, artes et religio is a collection of thirty-nine essays in honour of Rudolf Simek, professor at the Department of German, Comparative Literature and Culture at the University of Bonn. The terms resartes and religio describe the wide-ranging interests of Rudolf Simek, which centre around but are by no means limited to the area of Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia. The chapters gathered here, written by his friends, colleagues and students, match these interests and show the influence of his work in the fields of mythology, religious studies, runology, saga studies, archaeology and more.

Table of contents

1. Saints and Ships – Ásdís Egilsdóttir
2. Sprachverständigung als Themenkomplex in der Sagaliteratur – Alessia Bauer
3. What Does Frigg Say to Loki—and Why? – Karen Bek-Pedersen
4. Kat Godeu – die ‚Schlacht der Bäume‘ – Helmut Birkhan
5. Gurnemanz – houbetman der wâren zuht. Grundsätzliches und eine Fingerübung – Elke Brüggen
6. Tafel, buoch, brief – Zur Funktion und Bedeutung von Schriftstücken in mittelalterlichen legendarischen Erzählungen – Kathrin Chlench-Priber
7. Neugier und Staunen: Von der akribischen Objektbetrachtung zur plausiblen Sprachdeutung – Klaus Düwel
8. Giants in the Landscape: Hennøy, Surtshellir, and the Semantic Spectrum of Place – Matthias Egeler
9. The Æsir: An Obituary – Frog
10. The Blind Seer: The Enigmatic Ritual Specialist in the TV Series Vikings and his Archetypes in Old Norse Literature and Viking Archaeology – Leszek Gardeła
11. „Zauber, der in Farben spricht.“ Petitcriu und die Bilderhalle in Karl Simrocks Tristan-Fortsetzung – Peter Glasner
12. Die Reichen und die Schönen in der Laxdæla saga. Die Funktion höfischer Ästhetik – Stefanie Gropper
13. The Myths of the Vanir and Seasonal Change in the North – Terry Gunnell
14. Einblicke in die Arbeitsweise des Verfassers der Laxdœla saga – Rolf Heller
15. Ältere Gelehrsamkeiten und neuere Gedankengüter. Objektbiographien lateinischer und deutscher Sammelhandschriften der UB Leipzig – Regina Jucknies
16. Schwarze, weiße und gescheckte Körper. Belakane, Feirefiz und der Hautfarbendiskurs im Mittelalter – Karina Kellermann
17. Zur Allegorie und Allegorese Amors im Mittelalter – Peter Kern
18. Das Hirschmotiv im Germanischen – Arnulf Krause
19. Weit hergeholt – einige Beobachtungen, Rätsel und Thesen zur nordischen Kulturgeschichte – Gert Kreutzer
20. Vea Kaisers Roman Blasmusikpop als erzähltechnisch ambitionierte Österreichsatire – Wynfrid Kriegleder
21. Óðinn and Medieval Magicians – Annette Lassen
22. Æsir at the Assembly – John Lindow
23. Sizilien in der älteren nordischen Literatur: Geschichte und Berichte – Lorenzo Lozzi Gallo
24. Seven Pieces of Latin Poetry: A Study in the Mise-en-page and Poetic Style of Medieval Icelandic-Latin Verse – Astrid Marner and Gottskálk Jensson
25. Descendants of the Other: Giant Ancestry in Fundinn Nóregr – John Mckinnell
26. Haraldr harðráði and an Opening of St. Óláfr’s Grave: On a Certain Motif in Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla – Jakub Morawiec
27. Reglane for å skjere ǫrkross og boð i norske mellomalderlover. Ei viktig kjelde til organiseringa av samfunnet – Else Mundal
28. Náttvíg eru morðvíg. Dunkelheit und Nacht in der Egils saga Skallagrímssonar – Jan Alexander van Nahl
29. Post-human Perspectives on Old Norse Mythology – Judy Quinn
30. Heat Seething in the Sorrowful Heart: Contextualising the Old English Collocational Chain Centred on hat + heorte + weallan/wylm – Maria Elena Ruggerini
31. Sigafrid – Sigurðr – Sighfriðær: Historien om biskop Sigfrid och dess transformationer över tid och rum – Daniel Sävborg
32. Óðinn – the Pervert? – Jens Peter Schjødt
33. Scyld Scefing, Bestattung im Boot und die Idee der Wiedergeburt – Leszek P. Słupecki
34. Imagery of Free-Prose, Imagery of Book-Prose: Some Thoughts Considering the Change of Style in Respect to a Paragraph in Two Old Swedish Lawbooks – Jiří Starý
35. IKEA: typisch schwedisch? Von schwedischen, österreichischen und deutschen Sachen – Ana Suhr
36. The ‘Dragonish’ Brynhild in Guðrúnarkviða I: A Historical Counterpart in Frankish Hagiography – Veronka Szőke
37. „or brimi bloðgo“ – Körperlichkeit und Exklusion. Der altnordische Zwerg zwischen Literatur und Archäologie – Matthias S. Toplak
38. The Dipping of Newborn Babies in Cold Water: A Pre-Christian Germanic Religious Ritual Transmitted by Greek Authors? – Sabine Heidi Walther
39. Mythos und Mißverständnis – Stefan Zimmer
40. Publikationen von Rudolf Simek

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