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Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend (Hardcover)
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Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Old Norse Literature
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This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse
kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its
kin. Family interactions in Old Norse myth and legend were often
fraught, competitive, even violent as well as loving, protective
and supportive. Focusing particularly on intergenerational
relationships in the legendary sagas, the Poetic Edda and Snorra
Edda, this book reveals not only why ambivalence was so
characteristic of mythic-heroic kinship relations but how they were
able to endure, even thrive, in spite of such pressures. Close
attention is paid to the way gender inflects the dynamic between
parents and their children and to the patronymic naming system
which prevailed in Old Norse society, while outdated assumptions
about the existence of a special relationship between a man and his
sister's son inherited from earlier Germanic society are reassessed
for the first time in decades. What emerges from this wide-ranging
study is a new understanding of Old Norse kinship as a dynamic
transpersonal process rather than a presocial fact, in which the
individual self was expanded to encompass its kin. Taking the lead
from recent anthropological research into kinship and with exciting
implications for our understanding of Old Norse personhood,
emotions, and the life course, this book challenges its readers to
rethink many of the basic ontological assumptions which they bring
to their interpretations of Old Norse myth and legend.
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