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The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of
saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to
a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas
and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities.
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga
scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it
with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and
as source materials. This volume will be of interest to Old Norse
and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists
in general.
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.
The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of
saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to
a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas
and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities.
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga
scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it
with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and
as source materials. This volume will be of interest to Old Norse
and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists
in general.
Representations of shapeshifters are prominent in medieval culture
and they are particularly abundant in the vernacular literatures of
the societies around the North Sea. Some of the figures in these
stories remain well known in later folklore and often even in
modern media, such as werewolves, dragons, berserkir and
bird-maidens. Incorporating studies about Old English, Norse,
Latin, Irish, and Welsh literature, this collection of essays marks
an important new contribution to the study of medieval
shapeshifters. Each essay highlights how shapeshifting cannot be
studied in isolation, but intersects with many other topics, such
as the supernatural, monstrosity, animality, gender and identity.
Contributors to Shapeshifters in Medieval North Atlantic Literature
come from different intellectual traditions, embracing a
multidisciplinary approach combining influences from literary
criticism, history, philology, and anthropology.
Morkinskinna is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that portrays
the kings who ruled Norway in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
It emerged during a particularly fertile period of composition of
Icelandic kings sagas, and marks a key moment in the genres
development, being the first extant work in Old Norse in which the
reign of many kings is narrated in detail. Its structure has long
been considered idiosyncratic among Old Norse kings sagas.
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