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Author:   Dustin Geeraert (Author) ,  Dr Christopher Crocker (Author) ,  Dr Martina Ceolin ,  Dr Christopher Crocker (Author)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   D.S. Brewer
Weight:   0.437kg
ISBN:  

9781843846383

ISBN 10:   1843846381
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   23 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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List of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword: Old Norse and the Porous Boundaries of Medievalism, Tom Shippey Acknowledgements Note on the Text Introduction, Christopher Crocker and Dustin Geeraert 1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Medieval Iceland: Saga Realism and the Sworn Brothers, Ármann Jakobsson 2. The Malleability of the Past: Íslendingabókas Narrative History, Martina Ceolin 3. Women's Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland: Gender, Narrative, and Cloth Production, Meghan Korten 4. Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print: Stability and Change in the Transmission of Eddic Poetry, Andrew McGillivray 5. The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist, Ryan E. Johnson 6. What has Darwin to do with Óðinn? Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the 'Great Story of the North', Dustin Geeraert 7. Madness, Mythology, and Mitteleuropa: Günter Grass's Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum, Heather O'Donoghue 8. Once More, with Fiction: Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný's Blóðhófnir and The Eddic Poem Skírnismál, Christopher Crocker Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms, M.J. Toswell Bibliography Index

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Dustin Geeraert teaches English and Icelandic literature at the University of Manitoba. Christopher Crocker is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Iceland and teaches Icelandic literature at the University of Manitoba. Christopher Crocker is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Iceland and teaches Icelandic literature at the University of Manitoba. Dustin Geeraert teaches English and Icelandic literature at the University of Manitoba. M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at theUniversity of Western Ontario.

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