A Handbook to Eddic Poetry
Title | A Handbook to Eddic Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyne Larrington |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 675 |
Release | 2016-08-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316720853 |
This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as human heroes and supernatural beings alike grapple with betrayal, loyalty, mortality and love. These poems relate the most famous deeds of gods such as Óðinn and Þórr with their adversaries the giants; they bring to life the often fraught interactions between kings, queens and heroes as well as their encounters with valkyries, elves, dragons and dwarfs. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters in this volume showcase the poetic riches of the eddic corpus, and reveal its relevance to the history of poetics, gender studies, pre-Christian religions, art history and archaeology.
A Poetry Handbook
Title | A Poetry Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Oliver |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780156724005 |
With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.
Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry
Title | Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Brittany Erin Schorn |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2017-07-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110549794 |
While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offers a wide-ranging enquiry into the defining features of Old Norse wisdom, including the representation of wisdom in texts which cross traditional generic boundaries. It builds on recent advances in understanding of pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia, and calls on comparative and supporting work from several different disciplinary backgrounds (including literary theory, other medieval literatures and anthropology). Speaker and Authority interrogates important questions about the concept of knowledge, as well as its role in medieval Scandinavian society and its broader European cultural context.
Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry
Title | Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew McGillivray |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2018-10-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110625385 |
The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál serves as a representation of early pagan beliefs or myths and as a myth itself; the poem performs both of these functions, acting as a poetic framework and functioning as sacred myth. In this study, the author looks closely at the journey of the Norse god Óðinn to the hall of the ancient and wise giant Vafþrúðnir, where Óðinn craftily engages his adversary in a life-or-death contest in knowledge.
Old Norse Poetry in Performance
Title | Old Norse Poetry in Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Brian McMahon |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2022-05-02 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1000573362 |
This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. The contributors examine both eddic and skaldic poems and consider the surviving evidence for how they were originally recited or otherwise performed in medieval Scandinavia, Iceland and at royal courts across Europe. This study also engages with the challenge of reconstructing medieval performance styles and examines ways of applying the modern discipline of Performance Studies to the fragmentary corpus of Old Norse verse. The performance of verse by characters who appear in the Old Icelandic saga tradition is also considered, as is the cultural value associated not only with the poems themselves but with their various means of transmission and reception. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the fields of Old Norse studies, Performance and Theatre History.
Emotion in Old Norse Literature
Title | Emotion in Old Norse Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Sif Ríkharðsdóttir |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1843844702 |
Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon.
Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon
Title | Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon PDF eBook |
Author | Megan E. Hartman |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2020-10-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501513559 |
This book traces the development of hypermetric verse in Old English and compares it to the cognate traditions of Old Norse and Old Saxon. The study illustrates the inherent flexibility of the hypermetric line and shows how poets were able to manipulate this flexibility in different contexts for different practical and rhetorical purposes. This mode of analysis is therefore able to show what degree of control the poets had over the traditional alliterative line, what effects they were able to produce with various stylistic choices, and how attention to poetic style can aid in literary analysis.