TY  - BOOK
AU  - Key,Heather
TI  - Otherworld Women in Early Irish Literature
T2  - The Early Medieval North Atlantic
SN  - 9789048555987
U1  - 891.6209001 
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Fantasy in literature
KW  - Irish literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - To 1100
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Gender and Sexuality Studies
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - Literary Theory, Criticism, and History
KW  - Medieval Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Ireland
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Early Ireland, Women, the Otherworld, Supernatural
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Abbreviations --; Preface --; Part I Introduction --; 1 Women in Early Ireland --; 2 The ‘Otherworld’ of Early Ireland --; Part II The Texts --; 3 Echtrae Chonnlai and Immram Brain --; 4 Serglige Con Culainn --; 5 The Eponymous Goddesses of Lebor Gabála Érenn --; 6 Echtrae Nerai --; 7 A Fair Shake: Otherworld Men as Intermediaries --; Conclusion --; Appendix --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In early Ireland, there were many names for what scholars have dubbed the ‘Otherworld’: the Plain of Delights, the Land of Youth, the Land of Promise, and more. Many of the myths and legends from this period involve an encounter between a hero and a woman from this Otherworld, with sufficient frequency to form a distinct theme within the literature. This book examines the particularities and consequences of these otherworldly encounters, attending in particular to the question of gender and the social dynamics at work. Five stories purportedly from the lost book Cín Dromma Snechta receive detailed analysis, alongside material from other sources, in order to reconstruct the mindset of the early Irish who told these stories about the Otherworld and their views about women in general
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048555987?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048555987
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ER  -