MASSIMILIANO BAMPI is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Emerita Professor of medieval European literature at the University of Oxford and Emerita Research Fellow in medieval English literature at St John's College, Oxford. Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Emerita Professor of medieval European literature at the University of Oxford and Emerita Research Fellow in medieval English literature at St John's College, Oxford. DALE KEDWARDS is HM Queen Margrethe II Distinguished Research Fellow at the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute, the National Museum of Iceland, and the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle. MASSIMILIANO BAMPI is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland.

[A]s the extensive listing of works cited indicates, consideration of genre is today a matter of interest to many leading scholars in the Old Norse field, and for anyone in that field concerned with the topic of genre this collection of essays is indeed vital reading.

• Introduction - Massimiliano Bampi and Sif RikhardsdottirGenre - Massimiliano BampiHybridity - Sif RikhardsdottirTerminology - Lukas RösliForm - Mikael MalesOrality, Textuality and Performance - Judy QuinnManuscripts and Codicology - Jóhanna Katrín FriðriksdóttirThe Body Politic - Hans Jacob OrningGeography - Dale KedwardsTime and Space - Torfi H. TuliniusMemory - Pernille HermannThe Human Condition - Stefanie GropperGod(s) - Carolyne LarringtonWisdom - Brittany SchornSkaldic poetry - Case study: The Poetry of Torf-Einarr Rognvaldsson of Orkney - Erin GoeresEddic poetry - Case study: Sólarljóð - Carolyne LarringtonÞættir - Case study: Stjörnu-Odda draumr - Elizabeth Ashman RoweÍslendingasogur - Case study: Vatnsdæla saga - Russell PooleByskupasögur and heilagra manna sögur - Case study - Kevin J. WannerRomance - Case Study - Jürg GlauserAnnotated Taxonomy of Genres

MASSIMILIANO BAMPI is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Emerita Professor of medieval European literature at the University of Oxford and Emerita Research Fellow in medieval English literature at St John's College, Oxford. Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Emerita Professor of medieval European literature at the University of Oxford and Emerita Research Fellow in medieval English literature at St John's College, Oxford. DALE KEDWARDS is HM Queen Margrethe II Distinguished Research Fellow at the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute, the National Museum of Iceland, and the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle. MASSIMILIANO BAMPI is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland.

[A]s the extensive listing of works cited indicates, consideration of genre is today a matter of interest to many leading scholars in the Old Norse field, and for anyone in that field concerned with the topic of genre this collection of essays is indeed vital reading.

• Introduction - Massimiliano Bampi and Sif RikhardsdottirGenre - Massimiliano BampiHybridity - Sif RikhardsdottirTerminology - Lukas RösliForm - Mikael MalesOrality, Textuality and Performance - Judy QuinnManuscripts and Codicology - Jóhanna Katrín FriðriksdóttirThe Body Politic - Hans Jacob OrningGeography - Dale KedwardsTime and Space - Torfi H. TuliniusMemory - Pernille HermannThe Human Condition - Stefanie GropperGod(s) - Carolyne LarringtonWisdom - Brittany SchornSkaldic poetry - Case study: The Poetry of Torf-Einarr Rognvaldsson of Orkney - Erin GoeresEddic poetry - Case study: Sólarljóð - Carolyne LarringtonÞættir - Case study: Stjörnu-Odda draumr - Elizabeth Ashman RoweÍslendingasogur - Case study: Vatnsdæla saga - Russell PooleByskupasögur and heilagra manna sögur - Case study - Kevin J. WannerRomance - Case Study - Jürg GlauserAnnotated Taxonomy of Genres

MASSIMILIANO BAMPI is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Emerita Professor of medieval European literature at the University of Oxford and Emerita Research Fellow in medieval English literature at St John's College, Oxford. Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Emerita Professor of medieval European literature at the University of Oxford and Emerita Research Fellow in medieval English literature at St John's College, Oxford. DALE KEDWARDS is HM Queen Margrethe II Distinguished Research Fellow at the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute, the National Museum of Iceland, and the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle. MASSIMILIANO BAMPI is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland.

[A]s the extensive listing of works cited indicates, consideration of genre is today a matter of interest to many leading scholars in the Old Norse field, and for anyone in that field concerned with the topic of genre this collection of essays is indeed vital reading.

• Introduction - Massimiliano Bampi and Sif RikhardsdottirGenre - Massimiliano BampiHybridity - Sif RikhardsdottirTerminology - Lukas RösliForm - Mikael MalesOrality, Textuality and Performance - Judy QuinnManuscripts and Codicology - Jóhanna Katrín FriðriksdóttirThe Body Politic - Hans Jacob OrningGeography - Dale KedwardsTime and Space - Torfi H. TuliniusMemory - Pernille HermannThe Human Condition - Stefanie GropperGod(s) - Carolyne LarringtonWisdom - Brittany SchornSkaldic poetry - Case study: The Poetry of Torf-Einarr Rognvaldsson of Orkney - Erin GoeresEddic poetry - Case study: Sólarljóð - Carolyne LarringtonÞættir - Case study: Stjörnu-Odda draumr - Elizabeth Ashman RoweÍslendingasogur - Case study: Vatnsdæla saga - Russell PooleByskupasögur and heilagra manna sögur - Case study - Kevin J. WannerRomance - Case Study - Jürg GlauserAnnotated Taxonomy of Genres