Cultural legacies of Old Norse literature : new perspectives /: new perspectives. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Contributions by Martina Ceolin [and nine others] ; edited by Dustin Geeraert, Christopher Crocker.
• Editors: Geeraert, Dustin; Crocker, Christopher
• Contents: 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: Íslendingabók as 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 839.609; Old Norse literature -- History and criticism; Mythology, Norse, in literature; Mythology, Norse, in popular culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800106109
• Related ISBNs: 9781843846383
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