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Otherworld Women in Early Irish Literature / Heather Key.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Early Medieval North Atlantic ; 16Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048555987
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.6209001
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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