Conference Proceedings by Davide Salmoiraghi
The 10th Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North was held from April 15–17, 2021... more The 10th Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North was held from April 15–17, 2021, marking a three-day online event on Zoom and Twitch as well as a virtual exhibition of 14 posters. This proceedings publication includes enlarged abstracts of 29 papers presented at the conference. The overall aim of this publication is to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North.
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles by Davide Salmoiraghi
Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 2023
This article examines the attribution of Ambrósíuss saga biskups to Gunnlaugr Leifsson based on t... more This article examines the attribution of Ambrósíuss saga biskups to Gunnlaugr Leifsson based on the reference to the monk’s composition of a nova historia sancti Ambrosii contained in Arngrímr Brandsson’s Guðmundar saga. The article assesses the nature of the historia in question, the reliability of the episode the reference is found in, and the motives behind its composition. By analysing the narrative context of the bishop’s saga and the meaning of the term 'historia' in fourteenth-century Iceland, the expression in Guðmundar saga does not point to a prose work, but rather to a rhymed office of the saint, excluding the attribution of Ambrósíuss saga to Gunnlaugr. An intertextual analysis between the bishop’s saga, Bergr Sokkason’s Nikuláss saga erkibiskups (II), and Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum Historiale shows that the 'historia' episode in Guðmundar saga is modelled on a similar scene that is ultimately drawn from the Latin universal history via the saint’s saga. The differences between the source and saga show that Arngrímr made conscious adaptations that served the purpose of his narrative. In the author’s plan, I argue that the reference to Ambrose, together with the presence of Gunnlaugr bestowed reliability to an episode that probably never happened and suggested the presence of a text that not only does not concide with Ambrósíuss saga, but also that probably never was.
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The Literary Encyclopaedia , 2023
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The Literary Encyclopaedia , 2023
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[Entry] The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.3.4: Icelandic Writing and Culture.
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The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 122, 2023
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Book Chapters by Davide Salmoiraghi
Celui qui parle, c’est aussi important! Forme e declinazioni della funzione-autore tra linguistica, filologia e letteratura, ed. by D. Capelli, B. Del Buono, E. Gallo, and E. Pepponi (Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2023), pp. 21–43, 2023
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