Studies in Old Norse Literature – serie
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French Romance, Medieval Sweden and the Europeanisation of Culture
Av Sofia Lodén
Inbunden, 2021
1415 kr
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The adaptation of French texts into medieval Swedish reveals the progress of a Europe-wide literary culture.Translations of French romances into other vernaculars in the Middle Ages have sometimes been viewed as "less important" versions of prestigious sources, rather than in their place as part of …
Story, World and Character in the Late Íslendingasögur
Rogue Sagas
Inbunden, 2024
1489 kr
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Argues for new models of reading the complexity and subversiveness of fourteen "post-classical" sagas. The late Sagas of Icelanders, thought to be written in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, have hitherto received little scholarly attention. Previous generations of critics have unfavourably …
Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland
Inbunden, 2020
674 kr
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An innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the understudied Icelandic mappae mundi.The Icelandic mappae mundi (maps of the world), drawn between c. 1225 and c. 1400, are contemporary with the breathtaking rise of its vernacular literary culture, and provide important insights into the Icelanders' …
Paganesque and The Tale of Vǫlsi
Inbunden, 2024
939 kr
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Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of Vǫlsi, via the concept of the "paganesque".SHORTLISTED: The Katharine Briggs Award 2025A family of Norwegian pagans, stubbornly resisting the new Christian religion, worship a diabolically animated preserved …
Transformation and Identity in Old Norse Literature
The Human and Beyond
Häftad, 2026
345 kr
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Investigates how Old Norse myth, saga, and poetic traditions imagine human identity through encounters with animals, materials, and environments.What happens to the category of the "human" in a world where bodies shift shape, objects fuse with living beings, and identities slip between species? …
Emotion in Old Norse Literature
Translations, Voices, Contexts
Inbunden, 2017
1809 kr
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Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon.Authors throughout history have relied on the emotional make-up of their readers and audiences to make sense of the behaviours and actions of fictive characters. But how can a …
Saint and the Saga Hero
Hagiography and Early Icelandic Literature
Inbunden, 2017
674 kr
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A compelling argument that far from developing in a literary vacuum, saga literature interacts in lively, creative and critical ways with one of the central genres of the European middle ages.The relationship between that most popular of medieval genres, the saint's life, and the sagas of the …
Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature
Inbunden, 2018
1489 kr
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A full survey of the "Last Things" as treated in a wide range of Old Norse literature.The hope of salvation and the fear of damnation were fundamental in the Middle Ages. Surprisingly, however, this topic, as reflected in Old Norse literature, has received limited critical attention.This book …
Masculinities in Old Norse Literature
Av Gareth Lloyd Evans, Jessica Clare Hancock
Inbunden, 2020
2020 kr
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First full investigation of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic literature.Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which this volume aims to rectify. The essays collected here introduce …
Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre
Av Massimiliano Bampi, Carolyne Larrington m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1933 kr
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A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.We cannot read literary works without making use of the concept of genre. In Old Norse studies, genre has been central to the categorisation, evaluation and understanding of medieval prose and poetry alike; yet its definition has …
Discourse in Old Norse Literature
Inbunden, 2021
1489 kr
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An examination of what dialogues and direct speech in Old Norse literature can convey and mean, beyond their immediate face-value.The vast and diverse corpus of Old Norse literature preserves the language spoken not only by the Vikings, kings, and heroes of medieval Scandinavia but also by outlaws, …
Saints and their Legacies in Medieval Iceland
Av Kirsten Wolf, Dario Bullitta
Inbunden, 2021
1933 kr
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An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.Icelanders venerated numerous saints, both indigenous and from overseas, in the Middle Ages. However, although its literary elite was well acquainted with contemporary Continental currents in hagiographic compositions, theological …
Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend
Inbunden, 2022
1455 kr
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This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin.Family interactions in Old Norse myth and legend were often fraught, competitive, even violent as well as loving, protective and supportive. Focusing particularly …
Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders
Inbunden, 2022
1455 kr
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First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed.Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during …
The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts
Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling
Inbunden, 2024
1489 kr
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Demonstrates the essential nature of biblical translation and adaptation to Old-Norse-Icelandic literature. The historical narratives of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible have much in common with Icelandic saga literature: both are invested in origins and genealogy, place-names, family history, …
Lives and Deaths of the Norse Gods
Inbunden, 2025
1489 kr
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A comprehensive study of the mortality of Norse gods, with close readings of the Prose Edda, Poetic Edda and Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum.Divinity usually implies immortality. The very phrase "gods and mortals" highlights an ontological gap between two distinct categories of existence: immortal …
Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre
Av Massimiliano Bampi, Carolyne Larrington m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
489 kr
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A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.We cannot read literary works without making use of the concept of genre. In Old Norse studies, genre has been central to the categorisation, evaluation and understanding of medieval prose and poetry alike; yet its definition has …
Skaldic Poetry as Christian Propaganda
Honouring Bishop Guðmundr Arason in Fourteenth-Century Iceland
Inbunden, 2026
1415 kr
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A detailed literary study of fourteenth-century poetry composed in honour of a controversial thirteenth-century bishop.Vernacular poetry was a powerful influence in fourteenth-century Icelandic elite literary culture, even to the extent of providing the means of elevating a local bishop, Guðmundr …
Transformation and Identity in Old Norse Literature
The Human and Beyond
Inbunden, 2026
1267 kr
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Investigates how Old Norse myth, saga, and poetic traditions imagine human identity through encounters with animals, materials, and environments.What happens to the category of the "human" in a world where bodies shift shape, objects fuse with living beings, and identities slip between species? …
