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Revisiting the poetic Edda : essays on Old Norse heroic legend
Title
Revisiting the poetic Edda : essays on Old Norse heroic legend / edited by Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington ; [foreword, Tom Shippey ; introduction, Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington].
ISBN
0203098609 (electronic bk.)
9780203098608 (electronic bk.)
0415888611
9780415888615
Published
New York : Routledge, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix, 272 pages.)
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Summary
"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-maiden; tragic Guðrún and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!); and greedy King Fróði, whose name lives on in Tolkien's Frodo. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the poems for students, taking a number of fresh, theoretically-sophisticated and productive approaches to the poetry and its characters. Contributors bring to bear insights generated by comparative study, speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new, probing questions about the heroic poetry and its reception. Each essay is accompanied by up-to-date lists of further reading and a contextualisation of the poems or texts discussed in critical history. Drawing on the latest international studies of the poems in their manuscript context, and written by experts in their individual fields, engaging with the texts in their original language and context, but presented with full translations, this companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Routledge, 2002) is accessible to students and illuminating for experts. Essays also examine the afterlife of the heroic poems in Norse legendary saga, late medieval Icelandic poetry, the nineteenth-century operas of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the recently published (posthumous) poem by Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún."-- Provided by publisher.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Routledge medieval casebooks
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Heroic homosociality and homophobia in the Helgi poems / David Clark
Sigurðr, a medieval hero : a manuscript-based interpretation of the Young Sigurðr poems / Edgar Haimerl
Dragons in the Eddas and in early Nordic art / Paul Acker
Elegy in Eddic poetry : its origin and context / Daniel Sävborg
Guðrunarkviða in fyrsta : Guðrun's healing tears / Thomas D. Hill
Gerðit hon ... sem konor aðrar : women and subversion in Eddic heroic poetry / Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
I have long desired to cure you of old age : sibling drama in the later heroic poems of the Edda / Carolyne Larrington
Mythological motivation in Eddic heroic poetry : interpreting Grottasöngr / Judy Quinn
The Eddica minora : a lesser poetic Edda? / Margaret Clunies Ross
Fornaldarsögur and heroic legends of the Edda / Elizabeth Ashman Rowe
Wagner, Morris, and the Sigurd figure : confronting freedom and uncertainty / David Ashurst
Writing into the gap : Tolkien's reconstruction of the legends of Sigurd and Gudrún / Tom Shippey.
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