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Scandinavian-Canadian Studies / Études Scandinaves Au Canada Scandinavian-Canadian Studies Études scandinaves au Canada Volume 26 2019 Guest Editor/Rédacteur invité DUSTIN GEERAERT Journal Editor/Rédactrice du journal HELGA THORSON AASSC-AAESC Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada L’Association pour l’avancement des études scandinaves au Canada GUEST EDITOR/RÉDACTEUR INVITÉ Dustin Geeraert, University of Manitoba. JOURNAL EDITOR/RÉDACTRICE DU JOURNAL Helga Thorson, University of Victoria. EDITORIAL BOARD/COMITÉ DE RÉDACTION Errol Durbach, University of British Columbia. Daisy Neijmann, University of Iceland. Russell Poole, University of Western Ontario. Peter Stenberg, University of British Columbia. John Tucker, University of Victoria. Börje Vähämäki, University of Toronto. Gurli Woods, Carleton University. Henning Wærp, University of Tromsø. FRENCH TRANSLATION Valérie Duro. TECHNICAL EDITOR Martin Holmes, University of Victoria. 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ISSN 0823-1796. ©Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada/L’Association pour l’avancement des études scandinaves au Canada Scandinavian-Canadian Studies Études scandinaves au Canada Volume 26: 2019 Contributors 7 Dedication 13 Acknowledgements and Permissions 15 VISION Foreword: Companions on the Edge of Iceland Andrew McGillivray 18 Avant-propos: Compagnons à la lisière de l’Islande Andrew McGillivray 22 Introduction : Dialogues with a “Head of Destiny” Dustin Geeraert 26 CREATION From Manuscript(s) to Print: Editorial Practices Susanne M. Arthur 44 through the Ages and the Case of Konráð Gíslason’s (Incomplete) Edition of Fóstbræðra saga The Culture of the Grotesque in Old Icelandic Helga Kress 70 Literature: The Saga of the Sworn Brothers Old Norse in Italy: From Francesco Saverio Quadrio Fulvio Ferrari 88 to Fóstbræðra saga PRESERVATION Guardian of Memory: Halldór Laxness, Saga Editor Christopher Crocker 110 Is Halldór Laxness the Author of Fóstbræðra saga? Ástráður Eysteinsson 132 On the Author Function, Intertextuality, Translation, and a Modern Writer’s Relationship with the Icelandic Sagas Of Heroes and Cods’ Heads: Saga Meets Film in Bergljót Soffía 156 Gerpla Kristjánsdóttir A Modern-Day Saga in Fancy Dress: Contemporary Kristinn E. Andrésson 182 Social Critique in Halldór Laxnessʼs Gerpla DESTRUCTION Cold-War Confrontations: Gerpla and its Early Shaun F. D. Hughes 208 Reviewers “In the Shadow of Greater Events in the World”: Dustin Geeraert 240 The Northern Epic in the Wake of World War II Wayward Heroes: Vagabonds in World Literature Birna Bjarnadóttir 276 REBIRTH Afterword: Whatever Happened to the Sagas? Ármann Jakobsson 304 From the Westfjords to World Literature: A Ryan E. Johnson 312 Bibliography on Fostbræðra saga “The lore of skalds, warrior ideals, and tales of Alec Shaw 320 ancient kings”: A Bibliography on Gerpla Index of Keywords 326 Contributors Andrésson, Kristinn E. Kristinn E. Andrésson (1901-1973) was an Icelandic literary scholar, publisher, and socialist parliamentarian. While co-editor of Tímarit Máls og menningu (with Jakob Benediktsson) in 1952 he wrote a review of Gerpla which was published in 1972, and which Larissa Kyzer has translated for this volume (see also Section III of Shaun Hughes’ article “Gerpla: Laudations from the Left”, p. 215). Arthur, Susanne M. Susanne M. Arthur received her PhD degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2015. The native German worked on a postdoctoral project on the so-called *Gullskinna branch of Njáls saga at the University of Iceland from 2016–2018. Her main interests include Old Norse-Icelandic literature and medieval and post-medieval manuscript studies (codicology and paleography). She currently works as an editor for Healthline Media, Inc. Bjarnadóttir, Birna Birna Bjarnadóttir is a researcher and project manager at the University of Iceland’s Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute, and Former Chair of Icelandic at the University of Manitoba (2003-2015). Among other projects, she is the editor of the forthcoming Heiman og heim [Home and Exile], a collection of essays on Guðbergur Bergsson’s work, which will be published by the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institue and The Icelandic Literature Society. She is also leading The Expedition to the Magic Mountain (2013-2020), a project which can be found online at: http://www.nylo.is/en/events/expedition-to- the-magic-mountain/. Crocker, Christopher Christopher Crocker (PhD University of Iceland 2016) is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Iceland in the multidisciplinary research project “Disability before disability.” He is preparing Paranormal Dreams in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas for publication with Medieval Institute Publications, and is also co-translator of Guttormur J. Guttormsson’s Tíu Leikrit – Ten Plays (2015). He has extensive experience contributing to projects such as The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (2017) and publishing in academic journals such as Viator (2015) and Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2015). Eysteinsson, Ástráður Ástráður Eysteinsson was born in Akranes, Iceland, in 1957. He studied at the universities of Iceland, Warwick, and Cologne, before completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. He is Professor of Comparative Literature and former
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