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Old Norse Women's Poetry

Sandra Ballif Straubhaar
Old Norse Women s Poetry Book PDF

Author : Sandra Ballif Straubhaar
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842712

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Old Norse Women's Poetry by Sandra Ballif Straubhaar Pdf

Text, with English translation in two formats, of all the Old Norse poetry attributed to women - skáldkonur. The rich and compelling corpus of Old Norse poetry is one of the most important and influential areas of medieval European literature. What is less well known, however, is the quantity of the material which can be attributed to women skalds. This book, intended for a broad audience, presents a bilingual edition (Old Norse and English) of this material, from the ninth to the thirteenth century and beyond, with commentary and notes. The poems here reflect the dramatic and often violent nature of the sagas: their subject matter features Viking Age shipboard adventures and shipwrecks; prophecies; curses; declarations of love and of revenge; duels, feuds and battles; encounters with ghosts; marital and family discord; and religious insults, among many other topics. Their authors fall into four main categories: pre-Christian Norwegian and Icelandic skáldkonur of the Viking Age; Icelandic skáldkonur of the Sturlung Age (thirteenth century); additional early skáldkonur from the Islendingasögur and related material, not as historically verifiable as the first group; and mythical figures cited as reciting verse in the legendary sagas (fornaldarsögur). Sandra Ballif Straubhaar is Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Old Norse Images of Women

Jenny Jochens
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Author : Jenny Jochens
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512802818

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Old Norse Images of Women by Jenny Jochens Pdf

Working from the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and Old Norse prose narratives and laws, Jenny Jochens argues for an underlying cultural continuum of a pagan pantheon and a set of heroic figures shared by the Germanic tribes in Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland from A.D. 500 to 1500. Old Norse Images of Women explores the female half of this legacy, which involves images both divine and human. In a society marked by sharp gender divisions, women were frequently portrayed as one of four conventional types. The warrior woman was exemplified by the valkyrie, sheildmaiden, or maiden king. The wise woman was a prophetess or sorceress. The avenger is best seen in Gudrun, whose focus of revenge shifted from husband to brothers. Last, there were the whetters or inciters, who appear both in the Continental setting as Brynhildr and as ubiquitous figures in medieval Icelandic literature, ranging from Norwegian queens to humble milkmaids.

Women in Old Norse Literature

J. Friðriksdóttir
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Author : J. Friðriksdóttir
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137118066

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Women in Old Norse Literature by J. Friðriksdóttir Pdf

Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested values of the period, revealing the anxieties of both the authors and audiences.

A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics

Margaret Clunies Ross
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Author : Margaret Clunies Ross
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843840340

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A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics by Margaret Clunies Ross Pdf

This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were a conspicuous feature of medieval intellectual life in Iceland and the Orkneys from the mid-twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. Its aim is to give a clear description of the rich poetic tradition of early Scandinavia, particularly in Iceland, where it reached its zenith, and to demonstrate the social contexts that favoured poetic composition, from the oral societies of the early Viking Age in Norway and its colonies to the devout compositions of literate Christian clerics in fourteenth-century Iceland. The author analyses the two dominant poetic modes, eddic and skaldic, giving fresh examples of their various styles and subjects; looks at the prose contexts in which most Old Norse poetry has been preserved; and discusses problems of interpretation that arise because of the poetry's mode of transmission. She is concerned throughout to link indigenous theory with practice, beginning with the pre-Christian ideology of poets as favoured by the god ódinn and concluding with the Christian notion that a plain style best conveys the poet's message. Margaret Clunies Ross is McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney.

Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature

Dustin Geeraert,Christopher Crocker
Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature Book PDF

Author : Dustin Geeraert,Christopher Crocker
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Mythology, Norse, in literature
ISBN : 9781843846383

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Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature by Dustin Geeraert,Christopher Crocker Pdf

The cultural and literary legacy of medieval Iceland, with its roots in Norse heathen religion, heroic literature, and Viking Age history, is the focus of this volume. Its chapters examine the history and reception of a particular text or topic within this remarkable tradition. They treat a number of topics, including the legendary dragon-slayer Sigurd, the many personas of the mysterious god Odin, aspects of the ancient mythology of gods and giants, the early settlement of Iceland, the defiant Viking warriors known as the "Sworn Brothers", the entrepreneurial role of cloth production in medieval Scandinavia, the codicology and book history of key literary works, the many references to medieval Nordic lore in modern fiction and poetry, and the cultural position of islands such as Iceland in relation to the ebb and flow of religions, institutions and empires. Reconsidering these areas of Old Norse-Icelandic literary culture reveals the striking resilience and adaptability of its traditions, through a startling variety of transformations.

The Structure of Old Norse "Dróttkvætt" Poetry

Kari Ellen Gade
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Author : Kari Ellen Gade
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501732447

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The Structure of Old Norse "Dróttkvætt" Poetry by Kari Ellen Gade Pdf

The drottkvett was a form of Old Norse skaldic poetry composed to glorify a chieftain's deeds or to lament his death. Kari Ellen Gade explores the structural peculiarities of ninth- and tenth-century drottkvett poetry and suggests a solution to the mystery of the origins of the drottkvett and its eventual demise in the fourteenth century.

Revisiting the Poetic Edda

Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington
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Author : Paul Acker,Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 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.

Women in Old Norse Society

Jenny Jochens
Women in Old Norse Society Book PDF

Author : Jenny Jochens
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801455957

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Women in Old Norse Society by Jenny Jochens Pdf

Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway—their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs, reproductive practices, familial relations, leisure activities, religious practices, and legal constraints and protections. Women in Old Norse Society places particular emphasis on changing sexual mores and the impact of Christianity as imposed by the clergy and Norwegian kings. It also demonstrates the vital role women played in economic production.

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 : 43,7 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.

English Poetry and Old Norse Myth

Heather O'Donoghue
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Author : Heather O'Donoghue
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191034367

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English Poetry and Old Norse Myth by Heather O'Donoghue Pdf

English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History traces the influence of Old Norse myth — stories and poems about the familiar gods and goddesses of the pagan North, such as Odin, Thor, Baldr and Freyja — on poetry in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Especial care is taken to determine the precise form in which these poets encountered the mythic material, so that the book traces a parallel history of the gradual dissemination of Old Norse mythic texts. Very many major poets were inspired by Old Norse myth. Some, for instance the Anglo-Saxon poet of Beowulf, or much later, Sir Walter Scott, used Old Norse mythic references to lend dramatic colour and apparent authenticity to their presentation of a distant Northern past. Others, like Thomas Gray, or Matthew Arnold, adapted Old Norse mythological poems and stories in ways which both responded to and helped to form the literary tastes of their own times. Still others, such as William Blake, or David Jones, reworked and incorporated celebrated elements of Norse myth - valkyries weaving the fates of men, or the great World Tree Yggdrasill on which Odin sacrificed himself - as personal symbols in their own poetry. This book also considers less familiar literary figures, showing how a surprisingly large number of poets in English engaged in individual ways with Old Norse myth. English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History demonstrates how attitudes towards the pagan mythology of the north change over time, but reveals that poets have always recognized Old Norse myth as a vital part of the literary, political and historical legacy of the English-speaking world.

Old Norse Poetry in Performance

Brian McMahon,Annemari Ferreira
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Author : Brian McMahon,Annemari Ferreira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.

Women in the Viking Age

Judith Jesch
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Author : Judith Jesch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851153605

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Women in the Viking Age by Judith Jesch Pdf

Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.

The Norse Shaman

Evelyn C. Rysdyk
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Author : Evelyn C. Rysdyk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620555941

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The Norse Shaman by Evelyn C. Rysdyk Pdf

An experiential guide to the wisdom preserved in Europe’s far north • Includes shamanic journeys to connect with deities and your ancestral shamans • Provides step-by-step instructions to prepare for and conduct a seiðr ceremony • Draws on archaeological evidence and surviving written records from Iceland • Reveals the long tradition of female shamans in northern European shamanism Shamanism is humanity’s oldest spiritual tradition. In much of the Western world, the indigenous pre-Christian spiritual practices have been lost. Yet at the northern fringes of Europe, Christianity did not displace the original shamanic practices until the end of the Viking age. Remnants of Norse shamanic spirituality have survived in myths, folk traditions, and written records from Iceland, providing many clues about the ancient European shaman’s world, especially when examined in conjunction with other shamanic cultures in northern Eurasia, such as the Sami and the tribes of Siberia. Reconstructing the shamanic practices of the hunter-gatherers of Scandinavia, Evelyn Rysdyk explores the evolution of Norse shamanism from its earliest female roots to the pre-Christian Viking Age. She explains how to enter Yggdrasil, the World Tree, to travel to other realms and provides shamanic journeys to connect with the ancestral shamans of your family tree, including the Norse goddess Freyja, the very first shaman. She offers exercises to connect with the ancient goddesses of fate, the Norns, and introduces the overnight wilderness quest of útiseta for reconnecting with the powers of nature. She explains the key concepts of Ørlög and Wyrd--the two most powerful forces that shape human lives--and provides exercises for letting go of harmful behavior patterns and transforming simple knowledge into profound wisdom by connecting with Óðinn. Thoroughly examining the shamanic rituals of seiðr, the oracular magic of the Nordic cultures, the author provides step-by-step instructions to prepare for and conduct a seiðr ceremony, including creating your own seiðr staff and hood, and explores the ancestral use of shamanic songs or varðlokur to accompany the ceremony. Woven throughout these exercises, Rysdyk provides archaeological evidence from Neolithic sites supporting the long tradition of venerating wise women, grandmothers, and mothers in ancient cultures and the important role of female shamans at the heart of northern European shamanism. Providing an accessible guide for anyone trying to fulfill their shamanic callings, these powerful rituals can provide personal healing and a clear path for finding our way into a harmonious relationship with the natural world.

Egil, the Viking Poet

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

Author : Laurence de Looze,Jon Karl Helgason,Russell Poole,Torfi H. Tulinius
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 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.

The Cold Counsel

Sarah M. Anderson,Karen Swenson
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Author : Sarah M. Anderson,Karen Swenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134821457

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The Cold Counsel by Sarah M. Anderson,Karen Swenson Pdf

Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.