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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. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this book yields a variety of powerful and convincing readings. Contributors to the collection are both young scholars and senior figures in the discipline, and are of varying nationalities (American, British, Australian, Scandinavian, and Icelandic), thus ensuring a range of interpretations from different corners of the scholarly community. The new translations included here make available for the first time to English-speaking students the intriguing methodologies that are currently developing in Scandinavia. An essential collection of scholarship for any Old Norse course, the 'Poetic Edda' will also be of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth.

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Author

Paul Acker, Carolyne Larrington (eds.)

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136601354

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History

Updated

2026-03-24