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An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling
variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and their legacy in
later literary cultures. The "Viking Age" of medieval Scandinavia,
with its heathen religion and heroic literature, continues to
fascinate readers, writers, students, scholars, poets, artists, and
creators of all kinds around the world. This cultural legacy is
preserved in Old Norse literature, much of it composed and produced
in Iceland, an island with a unique position in relation to the ebb
and flow of religions, institutions, and empires. The chapters in
this book examine many topics in Old Norse literature: the
mysterious personas of the god Odin, the strange origins of poetry
and scholarship, the cryptic lore of the elusive dwarfs, the fame
of the dragon-slayer Sigurd and the defiant "Sworn Brothers", the
early settlement of Iceland, trade in the medieval north, and the
history of literary production. Several contributors upend
traditional interpretations of their topics, while others offer new
insights into the rich modern artistic reception of Norse myth.
These studies reveal the striking resilience and adaptability of
Old Norse narrative traditions, which retain their timeless appeal
through a startling variety of contexts and changes in form.
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