Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend,
this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and
inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends
of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the
dragon-slayer Siguror; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden;
tragic Guorun and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse
perspective ); and greedy King Frooi, whose name lives on in
Tolkien s Frodo. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to
the poems for students, taking a number of fresh,
theoretically-sophisticated and productive approaches to the poetry
and its characters. Contributors bring to bear insights generated
by comparative study, speech act and feminist theory, queer theory
and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new, probing
questions about the heroic poetry and its reception.
Each essay is accompanied by up-to-date lists of further reading
and a contextualisation of the poems or texts discussed in critical
history. Drawing on the latest international studies of the poems
in their manuscript context, and written by experts in their
individual fields, engaging with the texts in their original
language and context, but presented with full translations, this
companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology
(Routledge, 2002) is accessible to students and illuminating for
experts. Essays also examine the afterlife of the heroic poems in
Norse legendary saga, late medieval Icelandic poetry, the
nineteenth-century operas of Richard Wagner s Der Ring des
Nibelungen, and the recently published (posthumous) poem by
Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun.
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