What is it about?
An investigation of water and other kinds of fluids in the poems of the Poetic Edda of the Codex Regius. The article provides an overview of the different ways in which water appears, and makes a case for understanding medieval manuscripts as material components of extended human minds, mediating between humans and the environment they inhabit.
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Why is it important?
The article is both a case study of the appearances of water and other kinds of fluids in an important body of texts, and a case study of an 'exogrammar', i.e. a body of ideas about water (etc.) in this case that is distributed across one or more 'exograms', i.e. material components of extended minds.
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This is one of a set of articles I've written putting forward a new trans-/inter-disciplinary methodology for the closer integration of textual and material culture.
Michael Bintley
University of Southampton
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This page is a summary of: Fluid Dynamics: Aquatic Agency in the Poetic Edda of the Codex Regius, August 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004696501_009.
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