LEADER 04868oam 2200685I 450 001 9910452560203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-138-93699-5 010 $a0-203-09860-9 010 $a1-136-22787-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203098608 035 $a(CKB)2550000001096236 035 $a(EBL)1244627 035 $a(OCoLC)852758140 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000918599 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12467266 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918599 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10908626 035 $a(PQKB)10415697 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1244627 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1244627 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10728297 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL502814 035 $a(OCoLC)851695639 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001096236 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aRevisiting the poetic Edda $eessays on Old Norse heroic legend /$fedited by Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (295 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Medieval Casebooks 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-88861-1 311 $a1-299-71563-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Revisiting the Poetic Edda; Introduction to Chapter 1; 1 Heroic Homosociality and Homophobia in the Helgi Poems; Introduction to Chapters 2 and 3; 2 Siguršr, A Medieval Hero: A Manuscript-Based Interpretation of the "Young Siguršr Poems"; 3 Dragons in the Eddas and in Early Nordic Art; Introduction to Chapters 4, 5 and 6; 4 Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context; 5 Gušru?narkviša in fyrsta: Gušru?n's Healing Tears; 6 "Geršit hon . . . sem konor ašrar": Women and Subversion in Eddic Heroic Poetry 327 $aIntroduction to Chapter 77 "I Have Long Desired to Cure You of Old Age": Sibling Drama in the Later Heroic Poems of the Edda; Introduction to Chapter 8; 8 Mythological Motivation in Eddic Heroic Poetry: Interpreting Grottaso?ngr; 9 The Eddica minora: A Lesser Poetic Edda?; 10 Fornaldarso?gur and Heroic Legends of the Edda; 11 Wagner, Morris, and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty; 12 Writing into the Gap: Tolkien's Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudru?n; Contributors; Index 330 $a"Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurr; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden; tragic Gurun and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!); and greedy King Froi, whose name lives on in Tolkien's Frodo. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the poems for students, taking a number of fresh, theoretically-sophisticated and productive approaches to the poetry and its characters. Contributors bring to bear insights generated by comparative study, speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new, probing questions about the heroic poetry and its reception. Each essay is accompanied by up-to-date lists of further reading and a contextualisation of the poems or texts discussed in critical history. Drawing on the latest international studies of the poems in their manuscript context, and written by experts in their individual fields, engaging with the texts in their original language and context, but presented with full translations, this companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Routledge, 2002) is accessible to students and illuminating for experts. Essays also examine the afterlife of the heroic poems in Norse legendary saga, late medieval Icelandic poetry, the nineteenth-century operas of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the recently published (posthumous) poem by Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun. "--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aMedieval casebooks. 606 $aEddas$xHistory and criticism 606 $aOld Norse poetry$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLegends$zScandinavia 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEddas$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aOld Norse poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLegends 676 $a839.6/1009 701 $aAcker$b Paul$0166111 701 $aLarrington$b Carolyne$0222983 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452560203321 996 $aRevisiting the poetic Edda$92083890 997 $aUNINA