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Author:   Adèle Kreager
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   D.S. Brewer
ISBN:  

9781843848080

ISBN 10:   1843848082
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   09 June 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on Conventions Introduction Part I: Dismemberment and Re-assemblage 1. Wholeness and Partibility: Bodily Fragmentation in Mythological Narrative and Old Norse Poetics 2. Sword-Prostheses and Grafted Limbs: More-Than-Human Embodiment in Fornaldarsögur Part II: Entanglement and Transgression 3. 'Allir hlutir væri smíðaðir af nokkuru efni': Materiality, Personhood and Agency in Mythological Narrative and Old Norse Poetics 4. Humans, Animals and the 'Intimate Caesura': Transgression and Transformation in the Sigurðr-Cycle Part III: Shapeshifting 5. Words of Change: Old Norse Terminologies and Concepts of Transformation 6. Tales of Change: Narrative Patterns and Thematic Functions of Transformation Conclusion: Beyond Binaries and Between Boundaries Bibliography Index

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ADÈLE KREAGER gained her PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, where she has also taught classes in Old Norse language, poetics and textual criticism, and lectured on eddic verse and saga literature.

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