An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and their legacy in later literary cultures.
An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and their legacy in later literary cultures.
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword: Old Norse and the Porous Boundaries of Medievalism Tom Shippey Acknowledgements Note on the Text Introduction Christopher Crocker and Dustin Geeraert 1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Medieval Iceland: Saga Realism and the Sworn Brothers Ármann Jakobsson 2. The Malleability of the Past: Íslendingabókas Narrative History Martina Ceolin 3. Women's Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland: Gender Narrative and Cloth Production Meghan Korten 4. Vafþrúðnismál from Parchment to Print: Stability and Change in the Transmission of Eddic Poetry Andrew McGillivray 5. The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist Ryan E. Johnson 6. What has Darwin to do with Óðinn? Shapeshifting God and Nature in the 'Great Story of the North' Dustin Geeraert 7. Madness Mythology and Mitteleuropa: Günter Grass's Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum Heather O'Donoghue 8. Once More with Fiction: Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný's Blóðhófnir and The Eddic Poem Skírnismál Christopher Crocker Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms M.J. Toswell Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword: Old Norse and the Porous Boundaries of Medievalism Tom Shippey Acknowledgements Note on the Text Introduction Christopher Crocker and Dustin Geeraert 1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Medieval Iceland: Saga Realism and the Sworn Brothers Ármann Jakobsson 2. The Malleability of the Past: Íslendingabókas Narrative History Martina Ceolin 3. Women's Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland: Gender Narrative and Cloth Production Meghan Korten 4. Vafþrúðnismál from Parchment to Print: Stability and Change in the Transmission of Eddic Poetry Andrew McGillivray 5. The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist Ryan E. Johnson 6. What has Darwin to do with Óðinn? Shapeshifting God and Nature in the 'Great Story of the North' Dustin Geeraert 7. Madness Mythology and Mitteleuropa: Günter Grass's Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum Heather O'Donoghue 8. Once More with Fiction: Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný's Blóðhófnir and The Eddic Poem Skírnismál Christopher Crocker Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms M.J. Toswell Bibliography Index
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