The Cold Counsel : the Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Anderson, Sarah M.
Other Authors:	Swenson, Karen
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Subjects:	Old Norse literature > History and criticism. Mythology, Norse. Women in literature. Mythology, Norse Old Norse literature Women in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "og eru köld kvenna ráð"
"En hon er blandin mjök": Women and Insults in Old Norse Literature
Hildigunnr's Lament
Women's Voices in Old Norse Literature: The Case of Trójumanna saga
Taming the Shrew: The Rise of Patriarchy and the Subordination of the Feminine in Old Norse Literature
The Re-emergence of Women's Voices in Icelandic Literature, 1500-1800
Vikings Westward to Vínland: The Problem of Women
"þegi þú, þórr!": Gender, Class, and Discourse in þrymskviða
Fathers, Mothers, and Daughters: "Hver er að ráða?"
A Good Day's Work: Laxdœla saga, ch. 49
Women's Counsel in the Riddarasögur: The Case of Parcevals saga
The Woman Who Knows: Female Characters of Eyrbyggja saga
Male Bonding, Female Body: The Absenting of Woman in "Bisclaretz ljóð"
Ambiguously Gendered: The Skalds Jórunn, Auðr and Steinunn
Women Outside: Discourse of Community in Hávamál
Saga World and Nineteenth-Century Iceland: The Case of Women Farmers
The Contributors
Index.

The Cold Counsel : the Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth.

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