Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature, Christopher Abram

Автор: Barraclough Eleanor Rosamund
Название: Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
ISBN: 0198701292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198701293
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A trip to the furthest edgelands of the Viking world via the drama of the Old Norse sagas - from the Arctic Circle to Constantinople, North America to Kievan Rus.

Автор: Kelchner
Название: Dreams in Old Norse Literature and their Affinities in Folklore
ISBN: 1107620228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107620223
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Originally published in 1935, this book examines the role of dreams in Old Norse literature, how dreams were changed by the coming of Christianity, and how parallels in folklore can further inform an understanding of the importance of dreams to pre-Christian Norsemen.

Автор: Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif
Название: Old norse women`s poetry
ISBN: 1843842718 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843842712
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: Text, with English translation in two formats, of all the Old Norse poetry attributed to women - skaldkonur.

Автор: Jochens Jenny
Название: Women in Old Norse Society
ISBN: 0801485207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801485206
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway—their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs, reproductive practices, familial relations, leisure activities, religious practices, and legal constraints and protections. Women in Old Norse Society places particular emphasis on changing sexual mores and the impact of Christianity as imposed by the clergy and Norwegian kings. It also demonstrates the vital role women played in economic production.

Автор: Abram, Christopher
Название: Evergreen ash
ISBN: 0813942276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813942278
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will nolonger support the life it once nurtured. Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Ragnarok originated in Iceland, a nation whose volcanic activity places it perpetually on the brink of a world-changing environmental catastrophe. As the first full-length ecocritical study of Old Norse myth and literature, Evergreen Ash argues that Ragnarok is primarily a story of ecological collapse that reflects the anxieties of early Icelanders who were trying to make a home in a profoundly strange, marginal, and at times hostile environment.Christopher Abram here contends that Ragnarok offers an uncanny foreshadowing of our current global ecological crisis—the era of the Anthropocene. Ragnarok portends what may happen when a civilization believes that nature can be mastered and treated only as a resource to be exploited for human ends. The enduring power of the Ragnarok myth, and its relevance to life in the era of climate change, lies in its terrifying evocation of a world in which nothing is what it was before, a world that is no longer home to us—and, thus, a world with no future. Climate change may well be our Ragnarok.

Автор: Anderson Sarah M., Swenson Karen
Название: The Cold Counsel: The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth
ISBN: 1138991465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138991460
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.

Автор: Frioriksdottir Johanna Katrin
Название: Women in Old Norse Literature
ISBN: 0230120423 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230120426
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested values of the period, revealing the anxieties of both the authors and audiences.

Автор: J. Fri?riksd?ttir
Название: Women in Old Norse Literature
ISBN: 134929862X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349298624
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested values of the period, revealing the anxieties of both the authors and audiences.

Автор: Brittany Erin Schorn
Название: Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry
ISBN: 3110548178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110548174
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offers a wide-ranging enquiry into the defining features of Old Norse wisdom, including the representation of wisdom in texts which cross traditional generic boundaries. It builds on recent advances in understanding of pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia, and calls on comparative and supporting work from several different disciplinary backgrounds (including literary theory, other medieval literatures and anthropology). Speaker and Authority interrogates important questions about the concept of knowledge, as well as its role in medieval Scandinavian society and its broader European cultural context.

Автор: Haki Antonsson
Название: Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature
ISBN: 1843845075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843845072
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: A full survey of the "Last Things" as treated in a wide range of Old Norse literature.

Автор: Rikhardsdottir, Sif
Название: Emotion in old norse literature
ISBN: 1843844702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843844709
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Описание: Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon.

Автор: Rory McTurk
Название: Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds
ISBN: 1138378151 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138378155
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Through an examination of Old Norse and Celtic parallels to certain works of Chaucer, McTurk here identifies hitherto unrecognized sources for these works in early Irish tradition. He revives the idea that Chaucer visited Ireland between 1361 and 1366, placing new emphasis on the date of the enactment of the Statute of Kilkenny. Examining Chaucer’s House of Fame, McTurk uncovers parallels involving eagles, perilous entrances, and scatological jokes about poetry in the Topographia Hibernie by Gerald of Wales, Snorri Sturluson’s Edda, and the Old Irish sagas Fled Bricrend and Togail Bruidne Da Derga. He compares The Canterbury Tales, with its use of the motif of a journey as a framework for a tale-collection, with both Snorri’s Edda and the Middle Irish saga Acallam na SenA?rach. McTurk presents a compelling argument that these works represent Irish traditions which influenced Chaucer’s writing. In this study, McTurk also argues that the thirteenth-century Icelandic LaxdA¦la Saga and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale each descend from an Irish version of the Loathly Lady story. Further, he surmises that Chaucer’s five-stress line may derive from the tradition of Irish song known as amhrA?n, which, there is reason to suppose, existed in Ireland well before Chaucer’s time.