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The Multiple Facets of Time The Multiple Facets of Time Reckoning, Representing, and Understanding Time in Medieval Iceland Martina Ceolin Dissertation towards the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Iceland School of Humanities Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies August 2020 Íslensku- og menningardeild Háskóla Íslands hefur metið ritgerð þessa hæfa til varnar við doktorspróf í íslenskum miðaldabókmenntum Reykjavík, 15. júní 2020 Gauti Kristmannsson varadeildarforseti The Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland has declared this dissertation eligible for a defence leading to a Ph.D. degree in Medieval Icelandic Literature Doctoral Committee: Torfi H. Tulinius, supervisor Ármann Jakobsson Massimiliano Bampi The Multiple Facets of Time: Reckoning, Representing, and Understanding Time in Medieval Iceland © Martina Ceolin Reykjavík 2020 Dissertation for a doctoral degree at the University of Iceland. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the author. ISBN 978-9935-9245-4-4 Printing: Háskólaprent ABSTRACT This work investigates the multivalent and dynamic portrayal of time in a se- lection of early Old Icelandic texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The main objective is to map out the representations of time in terms of the patterns conveyed, and to examine how the authors configured time through narrative. An extension of this goal is to build up a theoretical understanding of how the people involved in the production of the texts, and possibly their contemporaries as well, reckoned, organized, and understood time. The primary texts analysed for these purposes are Íslendingabók and two Íslendingasögur, Eyrbyggja saga and Laxdæla saga. Íslendingabók is a concise history of Iceland from its settlement, ca. 870, to 1118, written by the priest Ari Þorgilsson inn fróði (“the Learned,” 1067/68–1148) between the years 1122– 33. The two Íslendingasögur, Eyrbyggja saga and Laxdæla saga, date from the thir- teenth century, but, like Íslendingabók, are narratively set in the Settlement Pe- riod, although Íslendingabók continues further. The treatment of time in each text, especially the sense of the past, along with the explicit and implicit con- nections that can be established between the texts, allows for a comprehensive comparative analysis of the time patterns they convey. Alongside this analysis, a focus on the historical period of the writing of the texts leads to a deeper understanding of how medieval Icelanders of that time at once measured, managed, and understood time. This in turn allows for a better appreciation of the ideological foundations that influenced the representations of time and the mechanisms involved in reconstructing the past in these texts. The analysis is conducted by tackling the issue from different theoretical perspectives: narrative, sociological, and philosophical. Such an analytical ap- proach aims to do justice to the multiplicity of times that concurred in medie- val Iceland. This approach also attempts to bridge gaps that currently exist within this research area, paving the way for further explorations of the subject of time in medieval Icelandic literature and society, and, more broadly, of time as an existential concern and human experience in the Middle Ages. i ÁGRIP Þessi doktorsritgerð fjallar um hvernig gerð er grein fyrir margþættum og síkvikum tíma í þremur íslenskum ritum frá miðöldum. Meginmarkmið rannsóknarinnar er að kortleggja hvaða mynstur má lesa út úr framsetningu tímans í textanum og hvernig tímanum er gerð skil í formi frásagnar. Annað markmið, sem leiðir af hinu fyrra, er að byggja upp fræðilegan skilning á því hvernig þau sem stóðu að þessum ritum, og væntanlega samtímamenn þeirra, reiknuðu, skipulögðu og skildu tímann. Frumheimildarnar sem greindar voru í þessum tilgangi eru Íslendingabók og tvær Íslendingasögur, Eyrbyggja saga og Laxdæla saga. Íslendingabók er gagnorð saga Íslands frá landnámi um 870 til ársins 1118. Hún var samin af prestinum Ara Þorgilssyni fróða (1067/68–1148) á árunum 1122–33. Eyrbyggja saga og Laxdæla saga eru báðar frá 13. öld, en segja frá atburðum frá landnámi fram yfir Kristinitöku, árið 999/1000. Þær eiga þennan tíma sameiginlegan með Íslendingabók, þótt frásögn Íslendingabókar nái töluvert lengra. Í ritunum þremur má skynja svipaða tilfinningu fyrir fortíðinni, og þau lýsa og sviðsetja tímann þannig að víðtækur samanburður á tímamynstrum er mögulegur. Auk þess eru bæði bein og óbein tengsl milli textanna. Samhliða þessari greiningu, er litið til ritunartíma textanna í leit að dýpri skilningi á því hvernig Íslendingar á miðöldum mældu tímann, stjórnuðu honum og skildu hann. Þetta gerir kleift að meta betur hugmyndafræðilegar forsendur fyrir framsetningu á tímanum í þessum textum og þau ferli sem bjuggu undir þeirri endursköpun á liðnum tíma sem þar átti sér stað. Í greiningunni er viðfangsefnið nálgast frá ólíkum fræðilegum sjónarhornum, í senn frásagnarfræðilegu, félagslegu og heimspekilegu. Þessi greiningaraðferð miðar að því að gera grein fyrir fjölþættu og samsettu tímahugtaki á Íslandi á miðöldum. Enn fremur leitast hún við að brúa bil milli fræðigreina sem fást við þetta viðfangsefni og leggja grunn að frekari rannsóknum á tíma í íslensku samfélagi og bókmenntum á miðöldum, en jafnframt í reynslu og tilvist miðaldafólks. iii CONTENTS Abstract i Ágrip iii List of Tables vii Foreword ix Introduction 1 1. Time Organization and Measurement in Early Iceland 9 1.1 The Socio-Historical Basis of Literacy and Text Production 9 1.2 Calendars and Time Units in Early Iceland 18 1.2.1 Calendars and Time Units in pre-Christian Scandinavia 18 1.2.2 The Old Icelandic Calendar and the Arrival of the Julian Calendar 26 1.2.3 Misseri 29 1.2.4 Months 32 1.2.5 Weeks 38 1.2.6 Days 40 1.3 The Intertwining of Time and Space 44 1.3.1 Stjǫrnu-Odda tala 50 1.3.2 Time and Travel 52 1.4 Genealogical Accounts 56 1.5 Forms of Dating 59 1.5.1 Relative Dating 60 1.5.2 Absolute Dating 63 1.5.2.1 The Origins and Development of the Easter Controversy 64 1.5.2.2 The Art of Computus 69 1.5.2.3 Absolute Dating Systems in Early Iceland 71 1.6 Concluding Remarks 76 v 2. The Representation of Time in Íslendingabók 79 2.1 Presentation of the Text 79 2.2 Chronology 89 2.2.1 Absolute Dating 90 2.2.2 Relative Dating 93 2.2.3 Calendrical Time Units and Reform of the Old Icelandic Calendar 98 2.3 Genealogies 101 2.4 Ari Þorgilsson’s Artistry in Reconstructing the Past 103 2.4.1 Ari’s Account of the Settlement (Ch. 1) 106 2.4.2 Ari’s Account of the Conversion to Christianity (Ch. 7) 110 2.5 Concluding Remarks 115 3. The Representation of Time in the Íslendingasögur 117 3.1 Story-time: Chronological and Episodic Time in the Íslendingasögur 123 3.2 Narrative Time in the Íslendingasögur 131 3.3 The Representation of Time in Eyrbyggja saga 137 3.3.1 Story-time 145 3.3.1.1 Chronological Time 145 3.3.1.2 Episodic Time 148 3.3.2 Narrative Time 162 3.4 The Representation of Time in Laxdæla saga 167 3.4.1 Story-time 175 3.4.1.1 Chronological Time 175 3.4.1.2 Episodic Time 178 3.4.2 Narrative Time 191 3.5 Concluding Remarks 201 vi 4. Sensing Time in Medieval Iceland 205 4.1 Paul Ricoeur’s Theory of Time 207 4.2 Ricoeur’s Theory of Narrative 215 4.3 The “Third Time” of Medieval Icelandic Narratives 220 4.4 Concluding Remarks 235 Conclusion: The Complexity of Time in Medieval Iceland 237 Bibliography 245 Primary Sources 245 Secondary Sources 248 LIST OF TABLES Table 1. The Variety of Month Names in Early Iceland 33 Table 2. Reformed Month Names 37 Table 3. The dagsmǫrk 41 Table 4. Old Norse and Latin Day Names 42 Table 5. Reformed Old Icelandic Day Names 43 vii FOREWORD I wish to express my sincerest gratitude to Professor Torfi Tulinius, my su- pervisor, for his insightful advice, always suggestive of new perspectives, his sensitive guidance, and enthusiastic encouragement during the completion of this research work. I am also very grateful to Professors Ármann Jakobs- son and Massimiliano Bampi for the invaluable insight and guidance they provided as members of my doctoral committee, which contributed signifi- cantly to the shape and the expression of the research that follows. I would like to extend my gratitude to Professors Gísli Sigurðsson, Jürg Glauser, and Pernille Hermann, and to Drs. Emily Lethbridge and Anna Katharina Heiniger, for their constructive advice during our collaboration within the international research project Time, Space, Narrative and the Íslend- ingasögur. Through the same project, Rannsóknamiðstöð Íslands (RANNÍS) generously provided funding to support my research. I also wish to thank my supervisor for providing me with several professional opportunities dur- ing these years, including teaching opportunities within the Faculty of Ice- landic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland. I can- not fail to mention the professors within that faculty, and the Faculty of His- tory and Philosophy, whose courses proved crucial to devising and carrying out this research, as well as the insight they provided during our occasions to collaborate. My appreciation also goes to Professor Shaun Hughes at Purdue University, for sharing with me a yet-unpublished article of his; to Steven Shema, for his irreplaceable assistance during the finalization of this manu- script; and to Katrín Sverrisdóttir, for her sensitive advice and encourage- ment. The following colleagues contributed to cultivating a stimulating and supportive environment of learning during this time: Kolfinna Jónatans- ix dóttir, Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir, Marion Poilvez, Yoav Tirosh, Andrew McGillivray, Santiago Barreiro, Miriam Mayburd, Viktória Gyönki, Michael Micci, Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir, Hjalti Snær Ægisson, Simon Halink, Arngrímur Vídalín, Védís Ragnheiðardóttir, and Elizabeth Walgen- bach.
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