Mariusz Mayburd
Biographic Data
| ID | 4682604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariusz Mayburd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariusz |
| FAMILY NAME | Mayburd |
| SIGNATURE | MAYBURD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rethinking ‘Shieldmaidens’ in Medieval Icelandic Literary Sources
A notable resurgence of interest in skjaldmeyjar (commonly termed ‘shieldmaidens’) in the fields of archaeology and gender studies has been ongoing over the last decade. Yet most saga scholarship on the subject continues to assume a post-feminist critical position reading gender identities as social groups in a structural hierarchy. These perspectives highlight the problematic and anachronistic nature of the concept of gender itself, which has at…
Kumlbúa þáttr , an Eschatological Event
The summary of Kumlbúa þáttr runs nearly as short as its actual content. This brief thirteenth-century text presents an account of a man who removes a sword from a mound, is confronted in a dream by the sword's owner, and thereafter attempts to return the sword but fails due to his inability to find the mound again. Once part of the Vatnshyrna manuscript codex, a late fourteenth-century compilation of Íslendingasögur and Íslendingaþættir that per…
The Hills Have Eyes
The present article investigates the unique features of Icelandic geographical terrain and its impact upon cognitive reality of medieval Iceland. The focus is on saga depictions of Viking-Age individuals on Iceland’s western coast passing into their local mountains when they die. This, it is contended, does not constitute death in the conventional sense of ceasing to be but instead a transformation into ambiguous ‘other’ entities which continue t…
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The Hills Have Eyes
The present article investigates the unique features of Icelandic geographical terrain and its impact upon cognitive reality of medieval Iceland. The focus is on saga depictions of Viking-Age individuals on Iceland’s western coast passing into their local mountains when they die. This, it is contended, does not constitute death in the conventional sense of ceasing to be but instead a transformation into ambiguous ‘other’ entities which continue t…
Kumlbúa þáttr , an Eschatological Event
The summary of Kumlbúa þáttr runs nearly as short as its actual content. This brief thirteenth-century text presents an account of a man who removes a sword from a mound, is confronted in a dream by the sword's owner, and thereafter attempts to return the sword but fails due to his inability to find the mound again. Once part of the Vatnshyrna manuscript codex, a late fourteenth-century compilation of Íslendingasögur and Íslendingaþættir that per…
Rethinking ‘Shieldmaidens’ in Medieval Icelandic Literary Sources
A notable resurgence of interest in skjaldmeyjar (commonly termed ‘shieldmaidens’) in the fields of archaeology and gender studies has been ongoing over the last decade. Yet most saga scholarship on the subject continues to assume a post-feminist critical position reading gender identities as social groups in a structural hierarchy. These perspectives highlight the problematic and anachronistic nature of the concept of gender itself, which has at…
Historical and Archaeological Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Icelandic (2 works) · Altered state (1 works) · Anachronism (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (1 works) · Astrophysics (1 works) · Classics (1 works)