{"id":11665,"date":"2019-03-14T21:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=11665"},"modified":"2019-03-14T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:56:01","slug":"wiegand-2019-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/wiegand-2019-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiegand (2019 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Jack Wiegand<br \/>\n(<em>University of Toronto<\/em>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>&#8220;Text without Context, Context without Text:<\/h2>\n<h2>Examining Absence in the Case of Grettisf\u00e6rsla (A Response)&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h3>Abstract of Response<br \/>\nTo be presented at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies<br \/>\n(Kalamazoo, 2019)<\/h3>\n<h4>Session on<br \/>\n&#8220;In the Absence of Manuscript Evidence:\u00a0 Considering Lacunae in Manuscript Studies&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4>Sponsored by the <strong>Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganized by Justin A. Hastings and Derek Shank<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2019-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 Congress Program<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>[<em>Published on 14 March 2019<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>Chapter 52 of <a href=\"https:\/\/is.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grettis_saga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grettir\u2019s Saga<\/a> mentions a poem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/2453054\/_Grettisf%C3%A6rsla_the_handing_on_of_Grettir_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cGrettisf\u00e6rsla\u201d<\/a> (\u201cThe Handing On of<br \/>\nGrettir\u201d), an obscene, versified account of Grettir\u2019s sexual exploits.\u00a0 The roughly 400-line<br \/>\npoem survives in only one manuscript, now in Reykjavik (\u00c1rni Magn\u00fasson Institute for<br \/>\nIcelandic Studies, AM 556 a 4\u00b0, spanning folios 52r\u201253r), dating from the last quarter<br \/>\nof the 15th century.\u00a0 In around the 16th century, this entire poem was meticulously<br \/>\nscraped off the pages.\u00a0 In the 1950s, digital imaging allowed it to be recovered in part,<br \/>\nwith only 52 lines remaining illegible.\u00a0 \u201cGrettisf\u00e6rsla\u201d has received little scholarly<br \/>\nattention in English, though an English language edition and translation are currently<br \/>\npending publication.<\/p>\n<p>This paper examines the current state of scholarship on the poem and pays particular<br \/>\nattention to the role absence or erasure \u2014 either through deliberation, negligence, or<br \/>\nsimple accidents of nature \u2014 play a role in the ongoing construction of the Icelandic<br \/>\nSagas.\u00a0 We conclude by arguing for renewed efforts at digital imaging, as well as<br \/>\nimaging enhancement, and by introducing a platform by which scholars of the saga<br \/>\nmay record translations or commentary on the text, in the hopes of generating renewed<br \/>\ninterest in the poem.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Wiegand (University of Toronto) &#8220;Text without Context, Context without Text: Examining Absence in the Case of Grettisf\u00e6rsla (A Response)&#8221; Abstract of Response To be presented at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2019) Session on &#8220;In the Absence of Manuscript Evidence:\u00a0 Considering Lacunae in Manuscript Studies&#8221; Sponsored by the Research Group on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11668,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11665\/revisions\/11668"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}