Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages)
ISBN:
9781800106109
,
9781800106093
Inhalt:
An exciting new collection of essays exploring the starting variety of transformations with Old Norse-Icelandic texts and across its wider literary culture.
Inhalt:
Front cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Foreword: Old Norse and the Porous Boundaries of Medievalism -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Medieval Iceland -- 2. Íslendingabók as Narrative History -- 3. Women's Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland -- 4. Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print -- 5. The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist -- 6. Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the 'Great Story of the North' -- 7. Günter Grass's Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum -- 8. Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný's Blóðhófnir and the Eddic Poem Skírnismál -- Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms -- Bibliography -- Index.
Anmerkung:
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781843846383
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781843846383
Sprache:
Englisch
