Moving Words in the Nordic Middle Ages (2019)

Moving Words comprises thirteen chapters that demonstrate the different ways words move individuals and create larger social and political communities through the dissemination of texts and their performances with a focus on the Nordic Middle Ages. Co-edited by Else Mundal, professor emerita at the University of Bergen, and Amy Mulligan, formerly a postdoctoral research at the University of Bergen and presently at the University of Notre Dame, the book contains eight chapters come from members of the research group:

• Else Mundal, “Medieval Nordic Backgrounds: Written Culture in an Oral Society”
• Aidan Conti, “Creating Absence: The Representation of Writing in Early Histories of the North”
• Åslaug Ommundsen, “Tracing Scribal Centres in Medieval Norway”
• Jonas Wellendorf, “Letters from Kings: Epistolary Communication in the Kings’ Sagas (until c. 1150)”
• Kristel Zilmer, “Gyrðir á lykil (Gyrðir owns the key): Materialized Moments of Communication in Runic Items in Medieval Bergen”
• Helen Leslie-Jacobsen, “Ǫrvar-Oddr’s Ævikviða and the Genesis of Ǫrvar-Odds saga”
• Ingvil Brügger Budal, “’Blood flying and brains falling like rain’: Chivalric Conflict Gone Norse”
• Else Mundal, “From Oral to Written in Old Norse Culture: Questions of Genre, Contact, and Continuity”