THE PAPERS
The
translations are largely far from perfect, but they’re only required to get the
point across. I’d be grateful to anyone taking care to point any mistakes, of
course.
PhD
Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar. That’s a little part
of what’s to become my dissertation. It will be worked on, of course, but it’s
already quite close to expressing my main idea. There’s some text and a table,
which is supposed to be the foundation of the whole work.
It’s
MS Word and Excel files, since my hosting doesn’t accept large html pages.
English Text (.doc)
English Table (.xls)
Russian Text (.doc)
Russian Table (.xls)
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Articles.
All of
these have been published already, so don’t bother stealing (if you didn’t mean
it, as you probably did, please excuse my lil’
paranoia). Only one was done in English, however, the rest I translated from
Russian. Only MS Word files as well, sorry about that. By the way, most of them
start with the same boring explanation of the basics, but this introduction is
unavoidable, since the Fornaldarsögur
aren’t exactly well-known in Russia, even to medievalists.
2006 – The Dual World of the Fornaldarsögur.
My best
achievement, the paper I presented on the 13th Saga Conference in
Durham & York. The one you’re most probable to be familiar with. There’s a
one-page abstract, the paper itself and the text of my presentation, which is quite
different from the printed stuff in some ways, with more emphasis on what and
why am I actually trying to do. Also there’s a handout of rather elephantine
proportions.
Paper (.doc)
Abstract [html]
Presentation (.doc)
Handout (.doc)
2005 – Folklore Elements in the Viking sagas:
the Magic Helper.
As it
turned out, the ideas of Propp can be applied to the Fornaldarsögur with quite a degree of success. The
argumentation is debatable in places, but the main point still stands
regardless of the need for corrections.
English (.doc)
Russian (.doc)
Thesis papers (much smaller than articles).
These files
can be viewed online.
2006 – The Plot and the Space in Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar.
This thesis paper
was done for the Pashutinskiye chteniya
(Pashuto Readings) of 2006. The tripartite scheme
doesn’t look so attractive to me now; in the paper for the saga conference I did
an alternative version. But it’s all essentially just models built for
practical purposes, so perhaps this idea is just another way of looking at
things.
2005 – ‘Noble Heathen’ In The
Fornaldarsögur (On The Material
Of Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar).
Another paper for
the Pashutinskiye chteniya
(Pashuto Readings), this time of 2005. It’s
essentially an exploration of one curious idea of Lars Lönnroth.
2005 – The Composition of Egils saga
einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana. That’s the only one I’ve yet to publish. The name says it all. Actually, the
text itself could say it a bit more clearly, but well, what’s done is done (by
now, at least).
2004 – Fornaldarsögur: An Attempt Of Interpretation (Based On Örvar-Odds saga). That one was done for the Lomonosov young scholars conference of 2004. The
ending paragraph is rather meandering, but other than the lack of a good summary it’s
quite all right.
2004 – The Giants in the Viking Sagas: Dynamics
of Perception. The
name is rather larger than the paper, since the text is … and what requires ten
pages is forced into one and a half. I still like the main idea, though, and
besides, it was my first one, so I can’t help having a soft spot for it. :)
© 2006 Alexey Eremenko. If you wanna say
something to me, just e-mail me at lomegil@gmail.com.