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Cover 1 Title 8 Copyright 9 Contents 10 List of Figures 12 Foreword 14 Acknowledgments 22 Introduction: Revisiting the Poetic Edda 24 Introduction to Chapter 1 31 1 Heroic Homosociality and Homophobia in the Helgi Poems 34 Introduction to Chapters 2 and 3 51 2 Sigurðr, A Medieval Hero: A Manuscript-Based Interpretation of the “Young Sigurðr Poems” 55 3 Dragons in the Eddas and in Early Nordic Art 76 Introduction to Chapters 4, 5 and 6 99 4 Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context 104 5 Guðrúnarkviða in fyrsta: Guðrún’s Healing Tears 130 6 “Gerðit hon . . . sem konor aðrar”: Women and Subversion in Eddic Heroic Poetry 140 Introduction to Chapter 7 159 7 “I Have Long Desired to Cure You of Old Age”: Sibling Drama in the Later Heroic Poems of the Edda 163 Introduction to Chapter 8 180 8 Mythological Motivation in Eddic Heroic Poetry: Interpreting Grottasöngr 182 9 The Eddica minora: A Lesser Poetic Edda? 206 10 Fornaldarsögur and Heroic Legends of the Edda 225 11 Wagner, Morris, and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty 242 12 Writing into the Gap: Tolkien’s Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún 261 Contributors 282 Index 286 Essays on Old Norse Hero

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Author

Larrington, Carolyne;Acker, Paul;Edda;Shippey, T. A

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2013

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction