SCAN 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Inbreeding, Centrality, Long-Term Memory

• School: UBC
• Department: Scandinavian
• Course: SCAN 335
• Professor: G E O F F R E Y W I N T H R O P- Y O U N G,

Document Summary

Ambiguous is okay, not matching up is not. Odin builds up and destroy, give and take away. Odin"s personal breeding experiment to find the bravest warriors to bring them to valkha. In the second part of the saga, odin gets people going instead of giving. Somebody has lots of sagas before them and put them together. Will invent stuff from times to times. Materials in question are not authentically scandinavian saga. Passed down from germany and rewrittened in icelandic. Further back in time from the written time than it was from written time to nowadays. Dealing with stuff that has been circulating for centuries. Many version of the tales written or talked about the characters. From the period of the tribal migration. Followed the fall of the roman empire. Dealt with violence and how society maintained by it. Dealing with long term memory of violence that has been turned into myth.