| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
840777
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Acker, Paul,1952-
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Revisiting the Poetic Edda.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
Hoboken :: Taylor and Francis,, 2013.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
1 online resource (295 pages)
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
1136227873
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781136227875
|
| Contents
|
:
|
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.
|
|
|
:
|
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.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
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.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Eddas-- History and criticism.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Legends-- Scandinavia.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Mythology, Norse, in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Old Norse poetry-- History and criticism.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Eddas.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Legends.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- German.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Mythology, Norse, in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Old Norse poetry.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Edda Sæmundar.
|
|
|
:
|
Edda Sæmundar.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Scandinavia.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
839.6/1009
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
PT7235
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Larrington, Carolyne.
|