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Gender, Violence, and the Past in Edda and Saga (Hardcover)
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Gender, Violence, and the Past in Edda and Saga (Hardcover)
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Gender, Violence, and the Past in Edda and Saga is the first book
to investigate both the relation between gender and violence in the
Old Norse Poetic Edda and key family and contemporary sagas, and
the interrelated nature of these genres. Beginning with an analysis
of eddaic attitudes to heroic violence and its gendered nature
through the figures of Gudrun and Helgi, the study broadens out to
the whole poetic compilation and how the past (and particularly the
mythological past) inflects the heroic present. This paves the way
for a consideration of the comparable relationship between the
heroic poems themselves and later reworkings of them or allusions
to them in the family and contemporary sagas. The book's thematic
concentration on gender/sexuality and violence, and its generic
concentration on Poetic Edda and later texts which rework or allude
to it, enable a diverse but coherent exploration of both key and
neglected Norse texts and the way in which their authors display a
dual fascination with and rejection of heroic vengeance.
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