Revisiting the Poetic Edda.

Revisiting the Poetic Edda.

Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhildr the implacable shield-ma...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Acker, Paul, 1952-
Other Authors: Larrington, Carolyne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Subjects:
Edda Sæmundar.
Edda Sæmundar
Eddas > History and criticism.
Old Norse poetry > History and criticism.
Legends > Scandinavia.
Mythology, Norse, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Eddas
Legends
Mythology, Norse, in literature
Old Norse poetry
Scandinavia
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Revisiting the Poetic Edda; Introduction to Chapter 1; 1 Heroic Homosociality and Homophobia in the Helgi Poems; Introduction to Chapters 2 and 3; 2 Sigurðr, A Medieval Hero: A Manuscript-Based Interpretation of the "Young Sigurðr Poems"; 3 Dragons in the Eddas and in Early Nordic Art; Introduction to Chapters 4, 5 and 6; 4 Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context; 5 Guðrúnarkviða in fyrsta: Guðrún's Healing Tears; 6 "Gerðit hon ... sem konor aðrar": Women and Subversion in Eddic Heroic Poetry.
  • Introduction to Chapter 77 "I Have Long Desired to Cure You of Old Age": Sibling Drama in the Later Heroic Poems of the Edda; Introduction to Chapter 8; 8 Mythological Motivation in Eddic Heroic Poetry: Interpreting Grottasöngr; 9 The Eddica minora: A Lesser Poetic Edda?; 10 Fornaldarsögur and Heroic Legends of the Edda; 11 Wagner, Morris, and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty; 12 Writing into the Gap: Tolkien's Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún; Contributors; Index.

Similar Items