Tytuł
WHY WOULD THE SKALDS NOT HAVE LIED ABOUT THE RULERS’ EXPEDITIONS AND BATTLES? SOME REMARKS ON A RELIC OF MEDIEVAL ATTITUDE TOWARD SOURCES IN MODERN MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Autorzy
[ 1 ] Ośrodek Historii Kultury Materialnej Średniowiecza i Czasów Nowożytnych, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk | [ P ] pracownik
Dyscyplina naukowa (Ustawa 2.0)
Rok publikacji
2020
Opublikowano w
Typ artykułu
artykuł naukowy
Język publikacji
angielski
Słowa kluczowe
Streszczenie
EN The article presents a critique of a research method whereby historical sources could not have possibly lied as they were targeted at the addressees who knew the actual course of the events described or referred to. This attitude toward the sources has its antecedence in Snorri Sturluson’s argument on the reliability of skaldic poetry. To his mind, the poems were biased but still valuable, in a way, as they were declaimed before the rulers who would have perceived an untrue account “as a mockery, rather than a praise”. The question arises, what kind of a situation Snorri tried to preclude: one where a mean warrior would have been shown as a great hero? Or, perhaps, one where a defector would have been portrayed as a warrior bravely marching in the fi rst rank? The story of Giffard from the Morkinskinna saga seems to offer the answer. Giffard fled from the battlefi eld but had a praise poem dedicated to him, which the (real) character aptly deciphered as derision aimed at him.
Strony (od-do)
165 - 179
Punktacja Ministerstwa / czasopismo
70
Punktacja Ministerstwa / czasopismo w ewaluacji 2017-2021
100
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