Essays On Eddic Poetry

Author : John McKinnell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442669277

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Essays on Eddic Poetry by John McKinnell Pdf

Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by noted medievalist John McKinnell. While McKinnell’s work addresses many of the perennial issues in the study of Old Norse, this collection has a special focus on the interplay between heathen and Christian world-views in the poems. Among the texts examined are Hávamál, which includes an elegantly cynical poem about Óðinn’s sexual intrigues and a more mystical one about his self-sacrifice on the world-tree in order to gain magical wisdom; Vǫlundarkviða, which recounts an elvish smith’s revenge for his captivity and maiming; and Hervararkviða, where the heroine bravely but foolishly raises her dead father to demand the deadly sword Tyrfingr from him. Originally published between 1988 and 2008, these twelve essays cover a wide range of mythological and heroic poems and have been revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship.

Author : John McKinnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1442669268

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Essays on Eddic Poetry by John McKinnell Pdf

Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by noted medievalist John McKinnell. While McKinnell's work addresses many of the perennial issues in the study of Old Norse, this collection has a special focus on the interplay between heathen and Christian world-views in the poems. Among the texts examined are Havamal, which includes an elegantly cynical poem about ooinn's sexual intrigues and a more mystical one about his self-sacrifice on the world-tree in order to gain magical wisdom; Vǫlundarkvioa, which recounts an elvish smith's revenge for his captivity and maiming; and Hervararkvioa, where the heroine bravely but foolishly raises her dead father to demand the deadly sword Tyrfingr from him. Originally published between 1988 and 2008, these twelve essays cover a wide range of mythological and heroic poems and have been revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship.

Author : Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136227875

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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.

Author : Robert James Glendinning,Haraldur Bessason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:B4954734

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Edda by Robert James Glendinning,Haraldur Bessason Pdf

Author : Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136601361

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The Poetic Edda by Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington Pdf

This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this book yields a variety of powerful and convincing readings. Contributors to the collection are both young scholars and senior figures in the discipline, and are of varying nationalities (American, British, Australian, Scandinavian, and Icelandic), thus ensuring a range of interpretations from different corners of the scholarly community. The new translations included here make available for the first time to English speaking students the intriguing methodologies that are currently developing in Scandinavia. An essential collection of scholarship for any Old Norse course, The Poetic Edda will also be of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth.

Author : Edward Pettit
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 50,9 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.

Author : Brian McMahon,Annemari Ferreira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,7 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.

Author : Andrew McGillivray
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141393735

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The Elder Edda by Anonim Pdf

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings 'So the company of men led a careless life, All was well with them: until One began To encompass evil, an enemy from hell. Grendel they called this cruel spirit...' J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales. Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fiction.They are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translations.They plunge the reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of strength.They are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century.

Author : Sif Ríkharðsdóttir
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844709

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Emotion in Old Norse Literature by Sif Ríkharðsdóttir Pdf

Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon.

Author : R.J. Glendinning,Haraldur Bessason
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780887553196

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The Edda by R.J. Glendinning,Haraldur Bessason Pdf

Twelve essays are presented by outstanding authorities in Nordic medieval studies and range from treatment of broad aspects of the Edda, to consideration of single poems, to analysis of parts of specific works. An attactive and important collection for every scholar of Old Scandinavian.

Author : Kirsten Wolf,Natalie M. Van Deusen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487500740

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The Saints in Old Norse and early Modern Icelandic Poetry by Kirsten Wolf,Natalie M. Van Deusen Pdf

The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.

Author : Laurence de Looze,Jon Karl Helgason,Russell Poole,Torfi H. Tulinius
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442621244

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Egil, the Viking Poet by Laurence de Looze,Jon Karl Helgason,Russell Poole,Torfi H. Tulinius Pdf

Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder, and poet epitomizes the many facets of Viking legend. The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil’s story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory. Strikingly original, their essays will appeal not only to dedicated students of Old Norse-Icelandic literature but also to those working in the fields of Viking studies, comparative ethnology, and folklore.

Author : Carolyne Larrington,Judy Quinn,Brittany Schorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 40,7 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.

Author : Magnús Fjalldal
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802038371

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Anglo-Saxon England in Icelandic Medieval Texts by Magnús Fjalldal Pdf

Medieval Icelandic authors wrote a great deal on the subject of England and the English. This new work by Magnús Fjalldal is the first to provide an overview of what Icelandic medieval texts have to say about Anglo-Saxon England in respect to its language, culture, history, and geography. Some of the texts Fjalldal examines include family sagas, the shorter þættir, the histories of Norwegian and Danish kings, and the Icelandic lives of Anglo-Saxon saints. Fjalldal finds that in response to a hostile Norwegian court and kings, Icelandic authors - from the early thirteenth century onwards (although they were rather poorly informed about England before 1066) - created a largely imaginary country where friendly, generous, although rather ineffective kings living under constant threat welcomed the assistance of saga heroes to solve their problems. The England of Icelandic medieval texts is more of a stage than a country, and chiefly functions to provide saga heroes with fame abroad. Since many of these texts are rarely examined outside of Iceland or in the English language, Fjalldal's book is important for scholars of both medieval Norse culture and Anglo-Saxon England.