A literary and editorial study of Áns saga bogsveigis

Abstract

This thesis is based on the Icelandic text Áns saga bogsveigis and it is meant to be the outcome of the course of my studies in Germanic philology and editorial linguistics. The study I carried out for this work belongs to two main domains: literature and encoding. In the first section, I will briefly present the origin and history of the Icelandic people and the development of a cultural tradition that has remarkably influenced the medieval European literature. I will then move to a literary analysis of the saga of Án with an essential exposition of the plot. The second section deals with the digital edition of this text. I will offer the description of the manuscript and of the literary tradition of the saga, to move then to my work on the manuscript. Here, the focus will be mainly on the rendition of the copious abbreviations encountered in the text with the aim to produce a paleographic transcription alongside with a reinterpreted text displaying all the abbreviations in their expanded forms, proposing the whole text encoded with XML TEI and a digital representation of a section of it.