Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature (eBook, ePUB)

New Perspectives
Redaktion: Geeraert, Dustin; Crocker, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and their legacy in later literary cultures.

The "Viking Age" of medieval Scandinavia, with its heathen religion and heroic literature, continues to fascinate readers, writers, students, scholars, poets, artists, and creators of all kinds around the world. This cultural legacy is preserved in Old Norse literature, much of it composed and produced in Iceland, an island with a unique position in relation to the ebb and flow of religions, institutions, and empires.

The chapters in this book examine many topics in Old Norse literature: the mysterious personas of the god Odin, the strange origins of poetry and scholarship, the cryptic lore of the elusive dwarfs, the fame of the dragon-slayer Sigurd and the defiant "Sworn Brothers", the early settlement of Iceland, trade in the medieval north, and the history of literary production. Several contributors upend traditional interpretations of their topics, while others offer new insights into the rich modern artistic reception of Norse myth. These studies reveal the striking resilience and adaptability of Old Norse narrative traditions, which retain their timeless appeal through a startling variety of contexts and changes in form.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800106109
• Artikelnr.: 64383487

Inhaltsangabe

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