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The Medieval North and Its Afterlife : Essays in Honor of Heather O’Donoghue / ed. by Siân Grønlie, Carl Phelpstead.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Northern Medieval World : On the Margins of EuropePublisher: Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, [2023]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 online resource (XI, 306 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501524837
  • 9781501516603
  • 9781501516597
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.9094 23
LOC classification:
  • GT3150 .M435 2024
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Heather O’Donoghue: An Appreciation -- Heather -- Part I: Old Norse Poetry and Saga -- Chapter 1 “There Is Hope for a Tree”: Two Laments on the Loss of Sons -- Chapter 2 A Wave of Sound: Rhythmicizing the Formal Artifice of Skaldic Poetry -- Chapter 3 Inspiring Storytelling in Saga Literature: Toponymic and Topographic Perspectives from Icelandic Folklore -- Chapter 4 Healing Hands, Holy Water, and Hellish Diseases: Some Accounts of Medical Performance in Medieval Iceland -- Chapter 5 A Question of Balance: Excess and Lack in Njáls saga -- Chapter 6 Queenship, Learning, and Good Counsel in Flores och Blanzeflor -- Chapter 7 When Grímr and Gunnar Met Hálfdan and Harold: Women Dressed as Men in Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar and Walter Scott’s Harold the Dauntless -- Part II: Related Languages and Literatures of the Medieval North -- Chapter 8 Seaworthy: Irish Immrama, Old Norse Voyage Tales, and the Women of the North Atlantic -- Chapter 9 Christ’s Letter to Abgar in England and Ireland -- Chapter 10 Norse, Irish, and English Songs: Communal Entertainment and Cultural Exchange in the Gesta Herwardi -- Chapter 11 “No Good Song Is Ever Sung of a Traitor”: The Death of Earl Waltheof in Verse and Prose -- Chapter 12 Norse Names and Narratives in Havelok the Dane -- Chapter 13 Strong Language: An Old Norse Word and Northern English -- Part III: Afterlives -- Chapter 14 Mighty Men at Home: Domestic Environments and Heroic Masculinity in William Morris’s The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs -- Chapter 15 Tolkien and Mirkwood -- Chapter 16 Past and Present Identities in Margaret Elphinstone’s Islanders -- Chapter 17 It’s not the End of the World: The Neo-Norse Cosmology of Joanne Harris -- Chapter 18 “Here Are the Words of the Æsir Themselves”: Retelling the Master Builder Myth between Translation and Adaptation -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures and their modern afterlives. The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature. Demonstrating the lively state of contemporary research on Old Norse and related subjects, this collection celebrates Heather O’Donoghue’s extraordinary and enduring influence on the field, as manifested in the wide-ranging and innovative research of her former students and colleagues.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Heather O’Donoghue: An Appreciation -- Heather -- Part I: Old Norse Poetry and Saga -- Chapter 1 “There Is Hope for a Tree”: Two Laments on the Loss of Sons -- Chapter 2 A Wave of Sound: Rhythmicizing the Formal Artifice of Skaldic Poetry -- Chapter 3 Inspiring Storytelling in Saga Literature: Toponymic and Topographic Perspectives from Icelandic Folklore -- Chapter 4 Healing Hands, Holy Water, and Hellish Diseases: Some Accounts of Medical Performance in Medieval Iceland -- Chapter 5 A Question of Balance: Excess and Lack in Njáls saga -- Chapter 6 Queenship, Learning, and Good Counsel in Flores och Blanzeflor -- Chapter 7 When Grímr and Gunnar Met Hálfdan and Harold: Women Dressed as Men in Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar and Walter Scott’s Harold the Dauntless -- Part II: Related Languages and Literatures of the Medieval North -- Chapter 8 Seaworthy: Irish Immrama, Old Norse Voyage Tales, and the Women of the North Atlantic -- Chapter 9 Christ’s Letter to Abgar in England and Ireland -- Chapter 10 Norse, Irish, and English Songs: Communal Entertainment and Cultural Exchange in the Gesta Herwardi -- Chapter 11 “No Good Song Is Ever Sung of a Traitor”: The Death of Earl Waltheof in Verse and Prose -- Chapter 12 Norse Names and Narratives in Havelok the Dane -- Chapter 13 Strong Language: An Old Norse Word and Northern English -- Part III: Afterlives -- Chapter 14 Mighty Men at Home: Domestic Environments and Heroic Masculinity in William Morris’s The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs -- Chapter 15 Tolkien and Mirkwood -- Chapter 16 Past and Present Identities in Margaret Elphinstone’s Islanders -- Chapter 17 It’s not the End of the World: The Neo-Norse Cosmology of Joanne Harris -- Chapter 18 “Here Are the Words of the Æsir Themselves”: Retelling the Master Builder Myth between Translation and Adaptation -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures and their modern afterlives. The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature. Demonstrating the lively state of contemporary research on Old Norse and related subjects, this collection celebrates Heather O’Donoghue’s extraordinary and enduring influence on the field, as manifested in the wide-ranging and innovative research of her former students and colleagues.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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