Egil, the Viking Poet : New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga' / / Laurence de Looze, Torfi H. Tulinius, Russell Poole, Jon Karl Helgason

• Pubblicazione: Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 839/.61
• Soggetto topico: Sagas - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Libros electronicos.
• Persona (resp. second.): HelgasonJon Karl; PooleRussell Gilbert; TuliniusTorfi H.; De LoozeLaurence
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The construction of Egil's saga / Torfi H. Tulinius -- Ars metrica and the composition of Egil's saga / Gurún Nordal -- The concept of the self in Egil's saga : a Ricoeurean approach / Laurence de Looze -- Self-description in Egil's poetry / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Thorolf's choice : family and goodness in Egil's saga, ch. 40 / Ármann Jakobsson -- Elegy and old age in Egil's saga / Alison Finlay -- *Konutorrek : a husband's lament / Oren Falk -- Facebook for Vikings : social network analysis and Egil's saga / Timothy R. Tangherlini -- Egil strikes again : textual variation and the seventeenth-century reworkings of Egil's saga / Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir -- Bloody runes : the transgressive poetics of Egil's saga / Jón Karl Helgason -- A selected bibliography from the online annotated bibliography of Egil's saga / Álfdís Þorleifsdóttir, Katelin Parsons, and Jane Appleton.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil's transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder, and poet epitomizes the many facets of Viking legend. The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil's story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory. Strikingly original, their essays will appeal not only to dedicated students of Old Norse-Icelandic literature but also to those working in the fields of Viking studies, comparative ethnology, and folklore."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Egil, the Viking Poet
• ISBN: 1-4426-2124-9; 1-4426-2123-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910956470403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies ; ; 9.