1st Edition
Revisiting the Poetic Edda Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend
1. Heroic Homosociality and Homophobia in the Helgi Poems David Clark 2. Sigurðr, A Medieval Hero: A Manuscript-Based Interpretation of the "Young Sigurðr Poems" Edgar Haimerl 3. Dragons in the Eddas and in Early Nordic Art Paul Acker 4. Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context Daniel Sävborg 5. Guðrúnarkviða in fyrsta: Guðrún’s Healing Tears Thomas D. Hill 6. ‘Gerðit hon ... sem konor aðrar’: Women and Subversion in Eddic Heroic Poetry Jóhanna Katrín Friđriksdóttir 7. ‘I have long desired to cure you of old age’: Mothers, Siblings and Murder in the Later Heroic Poems of the Edda Carolyne Larrington 8. Mythological Motivation in Eddic Heroic Poetry: interpreting Grottasöngr Judy Quinn 9. The Eddica minora: A Lesser Poetic Edda?Margaret Clunies Ross 10. Fornaldarsögur and Heroic Legends of the Edda Elizabeth Ashman Rowe 12. Wagner, Morris and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty David Ashurst 13. Writing into the Gap: Tolkien’s Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún Tom Shippey
Biography
Paul Acker is Professor of English at Saint Louis University, where he teaches Old English, Old Icelandic, and History of the English Language.
Carolyne Larrington is Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Language and Literature at St John’s College, Oxford.
'The 13 contributors offer an indispensable guide to the field of Norse poetry by examining passages in their original language and in English translation. Modern critical theory informs the perceptive close readings of a very broad set of topics ranging from dragons to sibling dramas, women and subversion, or Tolkien's efforts at reconstructing the Sigurd and Gudrún legends. For libraries collecting in medieval poetry and mythology. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' - J. G. Holland, emeritus, Davidson College in CHOICE
