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Old Norse Poetry in Performance

Brian McMahon,Annemari Ferreira
Old Norse Poetry in Performance Book PDF

Author : Brian McMahon,Annemari Ferreira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000573367

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Old Norse Poetry in Performance by Brian McMahon,Annemari Ferreira Pdf

This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. The contributors examine both eddic and skaldic poems and consider the surviving evidence for how they were originally recited or otherwise performed in medieval Scandinavia, Iceland and at royal courts across Europe. This study also engages with the challenge of reconstructing medieval performance styles and examines ways of applying the modern discipline of Performance Studies to the fragmentary corpus of Old Norse verse. The performance of verse by characters who appear in the Old Icelandic saga tradition is also considered, as is the cultural value associated not only with the poems themselves but with their various means of transmission and reception. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the fields of Old Norse studies, Performance and Theatre History.

A Handbook to Eddic Poetry

Carolyne Larrington,Judy Quinn,Brittany Schorn
A Handbook to Eddic Poetry Book PDF

Author : Carolyne Larrington,Judy Quinn,Brittany Schorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316720851

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A Handbook to Eddic Poetry by Carolyne Larrington,Judy Quinn,Brittany Schorn Pdf

This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as human heroes and supernatural beings alike grapple with betrayal, loyalty, mortality and love. These poems relate the most famous deeds of gods such as Óðinn and Þórr with their adversaries the giants; they bring to life the often fraught interactions between kings, queens and heroes as well as their encounters with valkyries, elves, dragons and dwarfs. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters in this volume showcase the poetic riches of the eddic corpus, and reveal its relevance to the history of poetics, gender studies, pre-Christian religions, art history and archaeology.

Performance in Beowulf and Other Old English Poems

Steven J. A. Breeze
Performance in Beowulf and Other Old English Poems Book PDF

Author : Steven J. A. Breeze
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : 9781843846451

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Performance in Beowulf and Other Old English Poems by Steven J. A. Breeze Pdf

Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old English poetry. However, while these performances capture the imagination, they also influence an audience's view of the world of the original poems, even to propagating certain assumptions, particularly those to do with performance practices. By stripping away these assumptions, this book aims to uncover the ways in which representations of performance in Old English poetry are intimately associated with poetic production and fundamental cultural concerns. Through an examination of Beowulf, diverse wisdom poems, and the "artist" poems Deor and Widsith, it proposes that poets constructed an imaginary domain of "poetic performance", which negotiated tensions between early medieval creativity and core social beliefs. It also shows how the poems' relationship with oral methods of composition and circulation weakened in later medieval poetry as both language and poetic form altered. Overall, the book explores what depictions of performance within these texts can tell us about early medieval conceptualisations, processes, and practices, in the poetic imagination and in wider culture. Through an analysis of Eddic poetry and Laȝamon's Brut, it also highlights a tradition of "poetic performance" in English poetics.

Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

Medieval Academy of America
Old Norse Icelandic Literature Book PDF

Author : Medieval Academy of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802038239

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Old Norse-Icelandic Literature by Medieval Academy of America Pdf

"In the past few decades, interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a corresponding interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Until the 1980s, however, there was a distinct lack of scholarship in English that synthesized the critical trends and thinking in the field, so in 1985 Carol J. Clover and John Lindow brought together several of the most distinguished Old Norse scholars to contribute essays for a collection that would finally provide a comprehensive guide to the major genres of Old Norse-Icelandic literature." "The contributors summarize and comment on scholarly work in the major branches of the field: eddic and skaldic poetry, family and kings' sagas, courtly writing, and mythology. Their essays, each with a full bibliography, make up this vital survey of Old Norse literature in English - a basic reference work that has stimulated much research and helped to open up the field to a wider academic readership." "This volume has become an essential text for instructors, and now, twenty years after its first appearance, it is being republished as part of the Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (MART) series with a new preface that discusses more recent contributions to the field."

Odin’s Ways

Annette Lassen
Odin s Ways Book PDF

Author : Annette Lassen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000469820

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Odin’s Ways by Annette Lassen Pdf

This book is about the Old Norse god Odin. It includes references to all occurrences of Odin in the Old Norse/Icelandic texts, including Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the eddic poems, Snorri’s Edda, and Ynglinga saga and analyses the high medieval reception and literary representations of Odin rather than the religious character of the god. This is the only existing study of Odin in all the Old Norse/Icelandic texts and applies a contextual method: the different guises of Odin are studied on the basis of the various textual contexts and on their background in the literary and Christian intellectual milieu of the time. Contrary to existing studies, this method is non-reductive in that it does not aim at providing a synthesis about Odin’s original nature on the basis of the differing textual uses of Odin in the Middle Ages. The book argues that the perceived complexity of Odin, often highlighted in research, is first and foremost a function of the complex textual material spanning a wide variety of genres each with its particular literary conventions and of the reception of Odin in early modern and modern mythological studies.

Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry

Andrew McGillivray
Influences of Pre Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry Book PDF

Author : Andrew McGillivray
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580443364

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Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry by Andrew McGillivray Pdf

The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál serves as a representation of early pagan beliefs or myths and as a myth itself; the poem performs both of these functions, acting as a poetic framework and functioning as sacred myth. In this study, the author looks closely at the journey of the Norse god Óðinn to the hall of the ancient and wise giant Vafþrúðnir, where Óðinn craftily engages his adversary in a life-or-death contest in knowledge.

Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry

Brittany Erin Schorn
Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry Book PDF

Author : Brittany Erin Schorn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110549799

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Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry by Brittany Erin Schorn Pdf

While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offers a wide-ranging enquiry into the defining features of Old Norse wisdom, including the representation of wisdom in texts which cross traditional generic boundaries. It builds on recent advances in understanding of pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia, and calls on comparative and supporting work from several different disciplinary backgrounds (including literary theory, other medieval literatures and anthropology). Speaker and Authority interrogates important questions about the concept of knowledge, as well as its role in medieval Scandinavian society and its broader European cultural context.

Oral Art Forms and Their Passage Into Writing

Else Mundal,Jonas Wellendorf
Oral Art Forms and Their Passage Into Writing Book PDF

Author : Else Mundal,Jonas Wellendorf
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Discourse analysis, Literary
ISBN : 9788763505048

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Oral Art Forms and Their Passage Into Writing by Else Mundal,Jonas Wellendorf Pdf

The present collection examines the complex interrelationship between the oral and the written and the problems of textualisation.

Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda

Christopher D. Sapp
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Author : Christopher D. Sapp
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257710

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Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda by Christopher D. Sapp Pdf

This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda , perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This study compares the anonymous Eddic poems to dated skaldic poems with respect to five phenomena that develop diachronically in early Old Norse: the expletive particle of, types of negation, word order, types of relative clause, and metrical criteria. After examining these dating features individually, the three most reliable criteria—the particle of, negation, and relative clause type—are combined into a multifactorial analysis using a Naïve Bayes Classifier. The classifier assigns a date to each Eddic poem, and these proposed dates have interesting implications for our understanding of these texts as sources for the medieval history, mythology, linguistics, and literature of the Germanic peoples. This book will have broad interdisciplinary interest, not just to historical linguists and philologists but also to scholars of Norse history, literature, and mythology.

Old Norse Religion in Long-term Perspectives

Anders Andrén
Old Norse Religion in Long term Perspectives Book PDF

Author : Anders Andrén
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789189116818

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Old Norse Religion in Long-term Perspectives by Anders Andrén Pdf

The study of Old Norse Religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia are investigated and interpreted by archaeologists, historians, art historians, historians of religion as well as scholars of literature, onomastics and Scandinavian studies. For obvious reasons, these studies belong to the main curricula in Scandinavia but are also carried out at many other universities in Europe, the United States and Australia a fact that is evident to any reader of this book. In order to bring this broad and varied field of research together, an international conference on Old Norse religion was held in Lund in June 2004. About two hundred delegates from more than fifteen countries took part. The intention was to gather researchers to encourage and improve scholarly exchange and dialogue, and Old Norse religion in long-term perspectives presents a selection of the proceedings from that conference. The 75 contributions elucidate topics such as worldview and cosmology, ritual and religious practice, myth and memory as well as the reception and present-day use of Old Norse religion. The main editors of this volume have directed the multidisciplinary research project Roads to Midgard since 2000. The project is based at Lund University and funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.

Revisiting the Poetic Edda

Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington
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Author : Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136227868

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Revisiting the Poetic Edda by Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington Pdf

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 approaches to the poetry and its characters. Contributors bring to bear insights generated by comparative study, speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new, probing questions about the heroic poetry and its reception. Each essay is accompanied by up-to-date lists of further reading and a contextualisation of the poems or texts discussed in critical history. Drawing on the latest international studies of the poems in their manuscript context, and written by experts in their individual fields, engaging with the texts in their original language and context, but presented with full translations, this companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Routledge, 2002) is accessible to students and illuminating for experts. Essays also examine the afterlife of the heroic poems in Norse legendary saga, late medieval Icelandic poetry, the nineteenth-century operas of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the recently published (posthumous) poem by Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.

Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

Carol J. Clover,John Lindow
Old Norse Icelandic Literature Book PDF

Author : Carol J. Clover,John Lindow
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501741654

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Old Norse-Icelandic Literature by Carol J. Clover,John Lindow Pdf

The current revival of interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a corresponding interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Even readers with a knowledge of Old Norse and Icelandic have found these subjects difficult to pursue, however, for up-to-date reference works in any language are few and none exist in English. To fill the gap, six distinguished scholars have contributed ambitious new essays to this volume. The contributors summarize and comment on scholarly work in the major branches of the field: Eddie and skaldic poetry, family and kings' sagas, courtly writing, and mythology. Taken together, their judicious and attractively written essays-each with a full bibliography-make up the first book-length survey of Old Norse literature in English and a basic reference work that will stimulate research in these areas and help to open up the field to a wider academic readership.

Old Icelandic Literature and Society

Margaret Clunies Ross
Old Icelandic Literature and Society Book PDF

Author : Margaret Clunies Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521631129

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Old Icelandic Literature and Society by Margaret Clunies Ross Pdf

The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.

The Viking World

Stefan Brink,Neil Price
The Viking World Book PDF

Author : Stefan Brink,Neil Price
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1067 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134318254

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The Viking World by Stefan Brink,Neil Price Pdf

Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field. Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a spectrum of disciplines (including archaeology, history, philology, comparative religion, numismatics and cultural geography) to create the most comprehensive Viking Age book of its kind ever attempted. Consisting of longer articles providing overviews of important themes, supported by shorter papers focusing on material of particular interest, this comprehensive volume covers such wide-ranging topics as social institutions, spatial issues, the Viking Age economy, warfare, beliefs, language, voyages, and links with medieval and Christian Europe. This original work, specifically oriented towards a university audience and the educated public, will have a self-evident place as an undergraduate course book and will be a standard work of reference for all those in the field.

The Poetic Edda

Edward Pettit
The Poetic Edda Book PDF

Author : Edward Pettit
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800647756

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The Poetic Edda by Edward Pettit Pdf

This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda. The poems cover diverse subjects, including the creation, destruction and rebirth of the world, the dealings of gods such as Óðinn, Þórr and Loki with giants and each other, and the more intimate, personal tragedies of the hero Sigurðr, his wife Guðrún and the valkyrie Brynhildr. Each poem is provided with an introduction, synopsis and suggestions for further reading. The Old Norse texts are furnished with a textual apparatus recording the manuscript readings behind this edition’s emendations, as well as select variant readings. The accompanying translations, informed by the latest scholarship, are concisely annotated to make them as accessible as possible. As the first open-access, single-volume parallel Old Norse edition and English translation of the Poetic Edda, this book will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Old Norse literature. It will also interest those researching other fields of medieval literature (especially Old English and Middle High German), and appeal to a wider general audience drawn to the myths and legends of the Viking Age and subsequent centuries.