“All kinds of chronicles and histories” Old Norse literature and gothicism between history and philology

The rise of Old Norse philology during the seventeenth century was strongly linked to a royal policy in Sweden, resulting in the foundation of official institutions such as the Antikvitetscollegium. Old literary genres were defined and classified, and methods for collecting documents were developed by Swedish scholars, in collaboration with Icelanders. This study focuses in particular on the literary agent Jón Eggertsson and his methods.