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<blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 1839460" data-attributes="member: 5990"><p>It's pretty widely known that many relevant folk beliefs survived, as they do to this day <em>í Íslands</em> (there, as here, trolls still abound), and it's not so unlikely that there were still some at least semi-serious believers around at that point. I mean, "Thor" and its dozen derivatives are even now rather common names, and every third esker is named after some mythological figure. There's also the fact that this literary tradition is one of the world's most continuous - many Icelanders in Snorri's day absolutely knew these stories just as they do now, even if they no longer marched down to the family idols a couple times a year with a sheep in tow. </p><p>Obviously, poor Snorri wouldn't have been rousted as he was unless the Christian mainstream was still feeling a little insecure about the whole issue, though to be sure it was probably more political than anything. Have you read the sagas pertaining to the Christianization, <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/njal100.html" target="_blank">Njal's particularly</a>? They do not give one the impression that the issue was settled then and there in the minds of everyone (a rather curious tale in all). It's also virtually certain that manuscript sources existed then which do not exist now, though I don't suppose I have expend much effort to explain the idea that many Medieval manuscripts have been lost over the years. Given that Snorri thought of himself as the <em>arbiter elegantiae</em> and chief chronicler of the genre and additionally was wealthy and powerful, a hereditary chieftain no less, it would be insane to suggest that his library wasn't an unparalleled treasure trove of Icelandic literature.</p><p>Finally, do I have to also point out that the <em>Volsungasaga</em> was written 50 years after Snorri died? <em>Somebody</em> there must have had other sources besides Snorri, because much of that appears nowhere in his works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tarchon, post: 1839460, member: 5990"] It's pretty widely known that many relevant folk beliefs survived, as they do to this day [i]í Íslands[/i] (there, as here, trolls still abound), and it's not so unlikely that there were still some at least semi-serious believers around at that point. I mean, "Thor" and its dozen derivatives are even now rather common names, and every third esker is named after some mythological figure. There's also the fact that this literary tradition is one of the world's most continuous - many Icelanders in Snorri's day absolutely knew these stories just as they do now, even if they no longer marched down to the family idols a couple times a year with a sheep in tow. Obviously, poor Snorri wouldn't have been rousted as he was unless the Christian mainstream was still feeling a little insecure about the whole issue, though to be sure it was probably more political than anything. Have you read the sagas pertaining to the Christianization, [URL=http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/njal100.html]Njal's particularly[/URL]? They do not give one the impression that the issue was settled then and there in the minds of everyone (a rather curious tale in all). It's also virtually certain that manuscript sources existed then which do not exist now, though I don't suppose I have expend much effort to explain the idea that many Medieval manuscripts have been lost over the years. Given that Snorri thought of himself as the [i]arbiter elegantiae[/i] and chief chronicler of the genre and additionally was wealthy and powerful, a hereditary chieftain no less, it would be insane to suggest that his library wasn't an unparalleled treasure trove of Icelandic literature. Finally, do I have to also point out that the [i]Volsungasaga[/i] was written 50 years after Snorri died? [i]Somebody[/i] there must have had other sources besides Snorri, because much of that appears nowhere in his works. [/QUOTE]
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