Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 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: Saga Realism and the Sworn Brothers
- 2 The Malleability of the Past: Íslendingabók as Narrative History
- 3 Women’s Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland: Gender, Narrative, and Cloth Production
- 4 Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print: Stability and Change in the Transmission of Eddic Poetry
- 5 The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist
- 6 What has Darwin to do with Óðinn? Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the ‘Great Story of the North’
- 7 Madness, Mythology, and Mitteleuropa: Günter Grass’s Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum
- 8 Once More, with Fiction: Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný’s Blóðhófnir and the Eddic Poem Skírnismál
- Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2022
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 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: Saga Realism and the Sworn Brothers
- 2 The Malleability of the Past: Íslendingabók as Narrative History
- 3 Women’s Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland: Gender, Narrative, and Cloth Production
- 4 Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print: Stability and Change in the Transmission of Eddic Poetry
- 5 The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist
- 6 What has Darwin to do with Óðinn? Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the ‘Great Story of the North’
- 7 Madness, Mythology, and Mitteleuropa: Günter Grass’s Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum
- 8 Once More, with Fiction: Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný’s Blóðhófnir and the Eddic Poem Skírnismál
- Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Cultural Legacies of Old Norse LiteratureNew Perspectives, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2022