Myths, legends, and heroes: essays on Old Norse and Old English literature in honour of John McKinnell
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press c2011 (2012)
Series:Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
[Part 1] - Transforming Paganism - The Norse gods in England and the Isle of Man - Judith Jesch - Elves and exorcism: Runic and other lead amulets in medieval popular religion - Rudolf Simek - Images of Norse cosmology - Margaret Clunies Ross -- - [Part II] - Using Poetry - Meeting the other: the cases of Draumr Þorsteins Hallsonar and Kumlbúa þáttr - John Lindow - Risking one's head: Vafþrúðnismál and the mythic power of poetry - Alison Finlay - Snorra Edda as Menippean satire - Rory McTurk -- - [Part III] - Literary Histories - Kings, bishops and laws: the Old Norse-Icelandic Version of 1 Maccabees - David Ashurst - Grendel's Reign of Terror: from history to vernacular epic - Helen Damico -- - [Part IV] - Motifs and Themes - Sibling drama: laterality in the heroic poems of the Edda - Carolyne Larrington - Burning walnuts: an international motif in the kings' sagas - Joyce Hill - A just and riding God: Christ's movement in The Descent into Hell - Maria Elena Ruggerini - All at sea: Beowulf's marvellous swimming - Daniel Anlezark
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 272 p.)
ISBN:0802099475
1442662050
9780802099471
9781442662056

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