Title
- Medieval Casebooks
Attribution
edited by Paul Acker and Carolyne LarringtonPublication Details
BookRoutledge2002Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PT7235 .P64 2002 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. An essential collection of scholarship for any Old Norse course, The Poetic Edda will alsobe of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Introduction: "Edda 2000"
- 1. "The Founding of Miogaror (Voluspa 1-8)" [tr. Paul Acker] / Lars Lonnroth
- 2. Gunnloo and the Precious Mead" [tr. Katrina Attwood] [Havamal] / Svava Jakobsdottir
- 3. Vafpruonismal and Grimnismal: Cosmic History, Cosmic Geography" / Carolyne Larrington
- 4. "Cursing with the Thistle: ‘Skirnismal’ 31, 6-8, and OE Metrical Charm 9, 16-17" / Joseph Harris - - 5. "Harbarosljoo as Generic Farce" / Carol Clover
- 6. "Porr’s Fishing Expedition" [Hymiskvioa] [tr. Kirsten Williams] / Preben Meulengracht Sorensen
- 7. "Form and Content in Lokasenna: A Re-evaluation" / Philip N. Anderson
- 8. "Loki’s Mythological Function in the Tripartite System" [Lokasenna] / Jerold C. Frakes
- 9. "Reading Prymskvioa" / Margaret Clunies Ross
- 10. "The Context of Volundarkvioa" / John McKinnell
- 11. "Dwarf- lore in Alvissmal" / Paul Acker
- 12. "Rigspula: Some Medieval Christian Analogues" / Thomas D. Hill
- 13. "Dialogue with a volva: Voluspa, Baldrs draumar and Hyndluljoo" / Judy Quinn
ISBN
- 0815316607
- 9780815316602
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