Kaleidoscopic Narration in the Sagas of Icelanders (B05)

• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 405662736

Project B05 approaches Icelandic saga literature from the assumption that late medieval saga narratives are generated kaleidoscopically from the same or similar narrative elements. It aims to investigate how such kaleidoscopic techniques are also utilised in the narration of other sagas of Icelanders, determining their complex aesthetic formation. We will test our findings against an apparently historiographic control group of texts, the contemporary sagas, while also examining the intersection between sagas of Icelanders and legendary sagas. This scope enables us to reframe the results of the first funding period and develop new approaches to saga narration, genre construction and fictionality.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1391: Different Aesthetics
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Stefanie Gropper; Professorin Dr. Rebecca Merkelbach, since 7/2023