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1 online resource (295 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Revisiting the Poetic Edda; Introduction to Chapter 1; 1 Heroic Homosociality and Homophobia in the Helgi Poems; Introduction to Chapters 2 and 3; 2 Sigurðr, A Medieval Hero: A Manuscript-Based Interpretation of the "Young Sigurðr Poems"; 3 Dragons in the Eddas and in Early Nordic Art; Introduction to Chapters 4, 5 and 6; 4 Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context; 5 Guðrúnarkviða in fyrsta: Guðrún's Healing Tears; 6 "Gerðit hon ... sem konor aðrar": Women and Subversion in Eddic Heroic Poetry |
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Introduction to Chapter 77 "I Have Long Desired to Cure You of Old Age": Sibling Drama in the Later Heroic Poems of the Edda; Introduction to Chapter 8; 8 Mythological Motivation in Eddic Heroic Poetry: Interpreting Grottasöngr; 9 The Eddica minora: A Lesser Poetic Edda?; 10 Fornaldarsögur and Heroic Legends of the Edda; 11 Wagner, Morris, and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty; 12 Writing into the Gap: Tolkien's Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún; Contributors; Index |
| 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 ap |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Edda Sæmundar. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50080078
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Edda Sæmundar fast |
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Eddas -- History and criticism
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Old Norse poetry -- History and criticism
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Legends -- Scandinavia.
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Mythology, Norse, in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Eddas
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Legends
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Mythology, Norse, in literature
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Old Norse poetry
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Scandinavia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Larrington, Carolyne
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| ISBN |
9781136227875 |
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1136227873 |
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