This collection visits the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend and is a companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Routledge, 2002), considering speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new questions about the poetry and its reception.
This collection visits the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend and is a companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Routledge, 2002), considering speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new questions about the poetry and its reception.
Paul Acker is Professor of English at Saint Louis University, where he teaches Old English, Old Icelandic, and History of the English Language. Carolyne Larrington is Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Language and Literature at St John's College, Oxford.
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1. Heroic Homosociality and Homophobia in the Helgi Poems David Clark 2. Sigurðr, A Medieval Hero: A Manuscript-Based Interpretation of the "Young Sigurðr Poems" Edgar Haimerl 3. Dragons in the Eddas and in Early Nordic Art Paul Acker 4. Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context Daniel Sävborg 5. Guðrúnarkviða in fyrsta: Guðrún's Healing Tears Thomas D. Hill 6. 'Gerðit hon ... sem konor aðrar': Women and Subversion in Eddic Heroic Poetry Jóhanna Katrín Fri¿riksdóttir 7. 'I have long desired to cure you of old age': Mothers, Siblings and Murder in the Later Heroic Poems of the Edda Carolyne Larrington 8. Mythological Motivation in Eddic Heroic Poetry: interpreting Grottasöngr Judy Quinn 9. The Eddica minora: A Lesser Poetic Edda?Margaret Clunies Ross 10. Fornaldarsögur and Heroic Legends of the Edda Elizabeth Ashman Rowe 12. Wagner, Morris and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty David Ashurst 13. Writing into the Gap: Tolkien's Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún Tom Shippey
1. Heroic Homosociality and Homophobia in the Helgi Poems David Clark 2. Sigurðr, A Medieval Hero: A Manuscript-Based Interpretation of the "Young Sigurðr Poems" Edgar Haimerl 3. Dragons in the Eddas and in Early Nordic Art Paul Acker 4. Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context Daniel Sävborg 5. Guðrúnarkviða in fyrsta: Guðrún's Healing Tears Thomas D. Hill 6. 'Gerðit hon ... sem konor aðrar': Women and Subversion in Eddic Heroic Poetry Jóhanna Katrín Fri¿riksdóttir 7. 'I have long desired to cure you of old age': Mothers, Siblings and Murder in the Later Heroic Poems of the Edda Carolyne Larrington 8. Mythological Motivation in Eddic Heroic Poetry: interpreting Grottasöngr Judy Quinn 9. The Eddica minora: A Lesser Poetic Edda?Margaret Clunies Ross 10. Fornaldarsögur and Heroic Legends of the Edda Elizabeth Ashman Rowe 12. Wagner, Morris and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty David Ashurst 13. Writing into the Gap: Tolkien's Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún Tom Shippey
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