Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature: New Perspectives

doi:10.1017/9781800106093

An exciting new collection of essays exploring the starting variety of transformations with Old Norse-Icelandic texts and across its wider literary culture.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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List of Contributors
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Foreword: Old Norse and the Porous Boundaries of Medievalism
pp xi-xiii
- By Tom Shippey
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Acknowledgements
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Note on the Text
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Introduction
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- By Christopher Crocker, Dustin Geeraert
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1 - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Medieval Iceland: Saga Realism and the Sworn Brothers
pp 8-24
- By Ármann Jakobsson
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2 - The Malleability of the Past: Íslendingabók as Narrative History
pp 25-45
- By Martina Ceolin
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3 - Women’s Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland: Gender, Narrative, and Cloth Production
pp 46-67
- By Meghan Korten
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4 - Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print: Stability and Change in the Transmission of Eddic Poetry
pp 68-87
- By Andrew McGillivray
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5 - The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist
pp 88-112
- By Ryan E. Johnson
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6 - What has Darwin to do with Óðinn? Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the ‘Great Story of the North’
pp 113-140
- By Dustin Geeraert
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7 - Madness, Mythology, and Mitteleuropa: Günter Grass’s Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum
pp 141-160
- By Heather O’Donoghue
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8 - Once More, with Fiction: Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný’s Blóðhófnir and the Eddic Poem Skírnismál
pp 161-180
- By Christopher Crocker
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Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms
pp 181-190
- By M.J. Toswell
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Bibliography
pp 191-212
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-vii

List of Contributors
pp viii-x

Foreword: Old Norse and the Porous Boundaries of Medievalism
pp xi-xiii

Acknowledgements
pp xiv-xiv

Note on the Text
pp xv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-7

1 - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Medieval Iceland: Saga Realism and the Sworn Brothers
pp 8-24

2 - The Malleability of the Past: Íslendingabók as Narrative History
pp 25-45

3 - Women’s Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland: Gender, Narrative, and Cloth Production
pp 46-67

4 - Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print: Stability and Change in the Transmission of Eddic Poetry
pp 68-87

5 - The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist
pp 88-112

6 - What has Darwin to do with Óðinn? Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the ‘Great Story of the North’
pp 113-140

7 - Madness, Mythology, and Mitteleuropa: Günter Grass’s Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum
pp 141-160

8 - Once More, with Fiction: Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný’s Blóðhófnir and the Eddic Poem Skírnismál
pp 161-180

Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms
pp 181-190

Bibliography
pp 191-212

Index
pp 213-216

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