Book Description
An examination of what dialogues and direct speech in Old Norse literature can convey and mean, beyond their immediate face-value.
Author : Eric Shane Bryan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,12 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1843845970
An examination of what dialogues and direct speech in Old Norse literature can convey and mean, beyond their immediate face-value.
Author : Dustin Geeraert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Mythology, Norse, in literature
ISBN : 1843846381
The cultural and literary legacy of medieval Iceland, with its roots in Norse heathen religion, heroic literature, and Viking Age history, is the focus of this volume. Its chapters examine the history and reception of a particular text or topic within this remarkable tradition. They treat a number of topics, including the legendary dragon-slayer Sigurd, the many personas of the mysterious god Odin, aspects of the ancient mythology of gods and giants, the early settlement of Iceland, the defiant Viking warriors known as the "Sworn Brothers", the entrepreneurial role of cloth production in medieval Scandinavia, the codicology and book history of key literary works, the many references to medieval Nordic lore in modern fiction and poetry, and the cultural position of islands such as Iceland in relation to the ebb and flow of religions, institutions and empires. Reconsidering these areas of Old Norse-Icelandic literary culture reveals the striking resilience and adaptability of its traditions, through a startling variety of transformations.
Author : Gareth Lloyd Evans
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1843845628
Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which this volume aims to rectify. The essays collected here introduce and analyse a spectrum of masculinities, from the sagas of Icelanders, contemporary sagas, kings' sagas, legendary sagas, chivalric sagas, bishops' sagas, and eddic and skaldic verse, producing a broad and multifaceted understanding of what it means to be masculine in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. A critical introduction places the essays in their scholarly context, providing the reader with a concise orientation in gender studies and the study of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic literature. This book's investigation of how masculinities are constructed and challenged within a unique literature is all the more vital in the current climate, in which Old Norse sources are weaponised to support far-right agendas and racist ideologies are intertwined with images of vikings as hypermasculine. This volume counters these troubling narratives of masculinity through explorations of Old Norse literature that demonstrate how masculinity is formed, how it is linked to violence and vulnerability, how it governs men's relationships, and how toxic models of masculinity may be challenged.
Author : Edgar C. Polomé
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Page : 347 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Gísli Sigurðsson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
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This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this distinguished medieval literature, G sli Sigur sson asks how it would alter our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas if it were assumed they had grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling, similar to that observed in living cultures. Sigur sson examines how orally trained lawspeakers regarded the emergent written culture, especially in light of the fact that the writing down of the law in the early twelfth century undermined their social status. Part II considers characters, genealogies, and events common to several sagas from the east of Iceland between which a written link cannot be established. Part III explores the immanent or mental map provided to the listening audience of the location of Vinland by the sagas about the Vinland voyages. Finally, this volume focuses on how accepted foundations for research on medieval texts are affected if an underlying oral tradition (of the kind we know from the modern field work) is assumed as part of their cultural background. This point is emphasized through the examination of parallel passages from two sagas and from mythological overlays in an otherwise secular text.
Author : Sarah M. Anderson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Mythology, Norse
ISBN : 9780815319665
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Sarah M. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134821387
Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.
Author : Georgia Dunham Kelchner
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2001-07-01
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ISBN : 9781571790996
Author : Preben Meulengracht Sørensen
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
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