Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature : New Perspectives /
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
D. S. Brewer,
2022.
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Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Front cover
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Foreword: Old Norse and the Porous Boundaries of Medievalism
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- 1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Medieval Iceland
- 2. Íslendingabók as Narrative History
- 3. Women's Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland
- 4. Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print
- 5. The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist
- 6. Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the 'Great Story of the North'
- 7. Günter Grass's Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum
- 8. Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný's Blóðhófnir and the Eddic Poem Skírnismál
- Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms
- Bibliography
- Index