Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe

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1. Introduction
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2. Origin Legends of Visigothic Spain in Isidore of Seville’s Writings
1 Introduction
2 Isidore’s Origin Story
3 Classical Connections: Getae and Scythians
4 Biblical Connections: Gog, Magog, and Noah
5 Journey from Barbarism to Civilization
6 Conclusion
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3. Origin Legends in Ireland and Celtic Britain
1 Ulaid
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4. Origin Legends in Italy in the Early Middle Ages
1 Italian Peoples and Ambiguous Italies
2 Origin Legends of the Romans and the Goths
3 Origin Legends of the Lombards
4 Conclusion
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5. Origin Stories in the Viking Diaspora—Norway, Iceland, Orkney
1 Introduction
2 How Iceland Was Settled
3 How Norway Was Settled
4 Origins of the Orkney Earls
5 Origins of Origin Stories
6 Historical Contexts of Origin Stories
7 Conclusion
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6. The Origin Legend of the Goths in the Getica by Jordanes
1 Scandza—Location
2 Scandza—Ethnographical Description
3 Gothic Migration and Its Irreversibility
4 A Story of the Goths Becoming Civilized?
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Translations of Primary Sources
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7. The Early History of Frankish Origin Legends, c.500–800 C.E.
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8. The Legend of Trojan Origins in the Later Middle Ages: Texts and Tapestries
1 Jean de France and the Politics of Tapestry
2 Cultural Meanings of the Trojan War
3 The Origins of Chivalry
4 The Nine Worthies
5 The Grenier Tapestries
6 Conclusion
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9. Fallen Angels and the Island Paradise
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10. The New Israel Motif in Early Medieval Origin Legends
1 Frankish History in Old Testament Style
2 The Two Exoduses
3 Sailing to the Promised Land
4 Conclusion
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11. Out-of-Scandinavia: New Perspectives on Barbarian Identity
1 ‘The North’
2 Origin Legends
3 Jordanes and the Goths
4 The Dissemination of the ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ Legend
5 Scandinavian Ancestors in Anglo-Saxon Texts
6 Importing Legends to the North
7 Conclusion
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12. Oral Tradition and Origin Legends
1 What Is Oral Tradition?
2 Example 1: The Origins of the Lombards
3 Example 2: The Trojan Origins of the Franks
4 Conclusions
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13. Origin Legends and Objects
1 Approaches to Origin Legends and Objects
2 Romulus and Remus
3 Object as Origin Legend: The Horn of Ulf in York Minster
4 Conclusions
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Manuscripts
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14. Historiography and the Invention of British Identity: Troy as an Origin Legend in Medieval
1 The Trojan Origins of Britain
2 Troy and the Origins of the Gaels in Ireland
3 Conclusion
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15. Origin Legends and Genealogy
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16. Myths of the Eastern Origins of the Franks: Fictions or a Kind of Truth?
1 Gregory of Tours
2 Fredegar and the Liber Historiae Francorum
3 Conclusions
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17. Origines gentium and the Long Shadow of Rome
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18. Myth, Memory, and the Early History of the Diocese of Tours in Gregory’s Decem libri historiarum
1 The Decem libri as Origo Turonensis
2 The Decem libri as Origo Martini et Gregorii
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19. Conclusion
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Index