Mediaeval Transfer, Transmission, and Reception of the Latin / Ancient Roman Culture in the Saga of the Romans (Rómverja saga, AM 595 a-b 4o and AM 226 fol.)

Abstract

Since the beginning of 2014, I have carried out a project on Antikensagas, the Sagas of Antiquity, both in Iceland as a visiting researcher at the University of Iceland, the University of Oslo, and at the University College of Southeast Norway. What was at first a research reconnaissance on the reception of Antiquity in mediaeval Iceland with time and much sound counsel from my friends and mentors in the North developed into a project for my PhD dissertation on The Saga of the Romans (Rómverja saga) in the context of mediaeval cultural transfer between continental Europe and Scandinavia. This project has been implemented with support from Iceland and Norway, through a grant from the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism under the Scholarship and Training Fund (The EEA & Norway Grants). In the following brief project description, I will introduce this work, which will continue until September 2019.