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Title:

New Norse studies : essays on the literature and culture of medieval Scandinavia / edited by Jeffrey Turco.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

vii, 433 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Old Norse literature--Scandinavia.
Middle Ages.
Scandinavia--Civilization.
Littérature vieux norroise--Scandinavie.
Moyen Âge.
Scandinavie--Civilisation.
Civilization.
Middle Ages.
Old Norse literature.
Scandinavia.
Altisländisch
Literatur

Other Authors:

Turco, Jeffrey, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Non-Basic Color Terms in Old Norse-Icelandic / Kirsten Wolf. Hereward and Grettir: Brothers from Another Mother? / Andy Orchard -- "Jafnan segir inn ríkri rað": Proverbial Allusion and the Implied Proverb in Fóstbrœðra saga / Richard L. Harris -- Seeking Death in Njáls saga / Torfi H. Tulinius -- Skaldic Poetics and the Making of the Sagas of the Icelanders / Guðrún Nordal -- Identity Poetics among the Icelandic Skalds / Russell Pool -- Loki, Sneglu-Halla þáttr, and the Case for a Skaldic Prosaics / Jeffrey Turco -- Beer, Vomit, Blood and Poetry: Egils saga, Chapters 44-45 / Thomas D. Hill -- The Old Norse Exempla as Arbiters of Gender Roles in Medieval Iceland / Shaun F. D. Hughes -- Performing Gender in the Icelandic Ballads / Paul Acker -- The Rök Inscription, Line 20 / Joseph Harris -- A Landscape of Conflict: Three Stories of the Faroe Conversions / Sarah Harlan-Haughey -- Non-Basic Color Terms in Old Norse-Icelandic / Kirsten Wolf.

Series:

Islandica : a series in Icelandic and Norse studies ; volume LVIII

ISBN:

0935995234
9780935995237

OCLC:

(OCoLC)687614383

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)