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Title:

Egil, the viking poet : new approaches to Egil's saga / edited by Laurence de Looze, Jon Karl Helgason, Russell Poole, and Torfi H. Tulinius.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

vi, 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Snorri Sturluson,--1179?-1241.--Egils saga.
Sagas--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Poole, Russell Gilbert, editor.
De Looze, Laurence, editor. editor.
Jon Karl Helgason, 1965- editor. editor.
Torfi H. Tulinius, 1958- editor. editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The construction of Egil's saga / Torfi H. Tulinius -- Ars metrica and the composition of Egil's saga / Gu©ʻrun Nordal -- The concept of the self in Egil's saga : a Ricoeurean approach / Laurence de Looze -- Self-description in Egil's poetry / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Thorolf's choice : family and goodness in Egil's saga, ch. 40 / Armann Jakobsson -- Elegy and old age in Egil's saga / Alison Finlay -- *Konutorrek : a husband's lament / Oren Falk -- Facebook for Vikings : social network analysis and Egil's saga / Timothy R. Tangherlini -- Egil strikes again : textual variation and the seventeenth-century reworkings of Egil's saga /Svanhildur Oskarsdottir -- Bloody runes : the transgressive poetics of Egil's saga / Jon Karl Helgason -- A selected bibliography from the online annotated bibliography of Egil's saga / Alfdis ©orleifsdottir, Katelin Parsons, and Jane Appleton.

Series:

Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies ; 9

ISBN:

1442649690
9781442649699

OCLC:

(OCoLC)898087054

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)