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Title Cultural legacies of Old Norse literature : new perspectives / edited by Christopher Crocker and Dustin Geeraert
Published Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 216 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front cover -- Table of 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 -- 2. Íslendingabók as Narrative History -- 3. Women's Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland -- 4. Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print -- 5. The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist -- 6. Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the 'Great Story of the North' -- 7. Günter Grass's Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum
8. Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný's Blóðhófnir and the Eddic Poem Skírnismál -- Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary An exciting new collection of essays exploring the starting variety of transformations with Old Norse-Icelandic texts and across its wider literary culture
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 11, 2022)
Subject Old Norse literature -- History and criticism
Old Norse literature -- Influence
Old Norse literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Crocker, Christopher, editor
Geeraert, Dustin, editor
Ceolin, Martina
Jakobsson, Ármann
Johnson, Ryan E
Korten, Meghan
McGillivray, Andrew
O'Donoghue, Heather
Shippey, Tom
Toswell, M. J
ISBN 9781800106109
1800106106
1800106092
9781800106093