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Author Dronke, Ursula.

Title Myth and fiction in early Norse lands / Ursula Dronke
Published Aldershot, Hampshire, [U.K.] ; Brookfield, Vt : Variorum, 1996

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 MELB  838.103512 D7865/M  DUE 13-05-24
Description 1 volume (various pagings) ; 24 cm
Series Collected studies series ; C524
Collected studies ; CS524
Contents I. Classical influence on early Norse literature -- II. Voluspa and Sibylline traditions -- III. The prologue of the Prose Edda: explorations of a Latin background / Ursula Dronke and Peter Dronke -- IV. Eddic poetry as a source for the history of Germanic religion -- V. The scope of the Corpus Poeticum Boreale -- VI. Voluspa and satiric tradition -- VII. The war of the Aesir and Vanir in Voluspa -- VIII. Ominnis hegri -- IX. Art and tradition in Skirnismal -- X. Sem jarlar foroum. The influence of Rigspula on two saga-episodes -- XI. Beowulf and Ragnarok -- XII. Pagan beliefs and Christian impact: the contribution of Eddic Studies -- XIII. Le caractere de la poesie germanique heroique -- XIV. The poet's persona in the Skalds' sagas -- XV. The saga of Hromund Gripsson and porgilssaga -- XVI. The role of sexual themes in Njals Saga
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Mythology in literature.
Mythology, Norse, in literature.
Old Norse literature -- History and criticism.
LC no. 95047879
ISBN 0860785459 cloth alkaline paper