Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway

by Martin Chase
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway

by Martin Chase

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Overview

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres (Eddic and Skaldic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern), or cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, Continental) may not have been as sharp in the eyes and ears of contemporary authors and audiences as they are in our own. When questions of classification are allowed to fade into the background, at least temporarily, the poetry can be appreciated on its own terms. Some of the essays in this collection present new material, while others challenge long-held assumptions. They reflect the idea that poetry with “medieval” characteristics continued to be produced in Iceland well past the fifteenth century, and even beyond the Protestant Reformation in Iceland (1550). This superb volume, rich in up-to-date scholarship, makes little-known material accessible to a wide audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780823257836
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 06/02/2014
Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Martin Chase is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, where he teaches Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His current research is on late- medieval Icelandic devotional poetry. He edited Geisli and Lilja for the Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages series.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Gunnlaugr Leifsson's Uses in Merl n ssp of Twelfth-Century English Sources Additional to the De Gestis Britonum of Geoffrey of Monmouth
Russell Poole

The Genesis of Strengleikar: Scribes, Translators, and Place of Origin
Ingvil Br gger Budal

Einarr Sk lason, Snorri Sturluson, and the Post-Pagan Mythological Kenning
Christopher Abram

Sk ldskaparm l as a Tool for Composition of "Early" Skaldic Poetry
Mikael Males

H ttatal Stanza 12 and the Divine Legitimation of Kings
Kevin J. Wanner

Creating Tradition: the Use of Skaldic Verse in Old Norse Historiography
Rolf Stavnem

Rattus Rattus as a Beast of Battle? Stanza 12 of Ragnars Saga
Rory McTurk

Wit and Wisdom: the World View of the Old Norse-Icelandic Riddles and Their Relationship to Eddic Poetry
Hannah Burrows

Devotional Poetry at the End of the Middle Ages in Iceland
Martin Chase

Love and Death in the Icelandic Ballad
Paul Acker

Steinunn Finnsd ttir and Sn k ngs R mur
Shaun F. D. Hughes

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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