North, R;
(2022)
Resident stranger: Sæmundr in the Ashkenaz.
In: Thomson, SC, (ed.)
Strangers at the Gate! Multidisciplinary Explorations of Communities, Borders, and Othering in Medieval Western Europe.
(pp. 146-165).
Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Abstract
When did the Jews reach Iceland?1 There is no evidence that Jews lived there before the seventeenth century. Conversely, however, it may be suggested that Sæmundr inn fróði [the learned] Sigfússon (1056–1133), priest of Oddi and Iceland’s first book-learned historian, lived as a stranger among the Jews of Germany in the 1070s.2 This is partly because he was probably in the Rhineland for more than a decade, partly because one of the Icelandic snippets derived from his writing appears to be based on a commentary on Genesis for which the best analogue is found in Rabbinic commentary. Let us go over Sæmundr’s schooling and writing to see how this suggestion may be made.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Resident stranger: Sæmundr in the Ashkenaz |
| ISBN-13: | 978-90-04-42549-1 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1163/9789004511910 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004511910_010 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082256 |
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