Egil, the Viking poet : new approaches to Egil's saga
Laurence De Looze (Author, Editor), Jón Karl Helgason (Author, Editor), Russell Gilbert Poole (Editor), Torfi H. Tulinius (Author, Editor)
"Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil's transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder, and poet epitomizes the many facets of Viking legend. The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil's story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory. Strikingly original, their essays will appeal not only to dedicated students of Old Norse-Icelandic literature but also to those working in the fields of Viking studies, comparative ethnology, and folklore."-- Provided by publisher
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (vi, 242 pages)
9781442621237, 9781442621244, 1442621230, 1442621249
933434182
1. Introduction: Egil, The Viking Poet: New Approaches to Egil’s Saga (Russell Poole)COMPOSITION2. The Construction of Egil’s Saga (Torfi H. Tulinius)3. Ars metrica and the Composition of Egil’s Saga (Guðrún Nordal)IDENTITY4. The Concept of the Self in Egil’s Saga: A Ricoeurean Approach (Laurence de Looze)5. Self-description in Egil’s Poetry (Margaret Clunies Ross)EMOTIONS AND AFFILIATIONS6. Emotions and Moral Issues in a Dysfunctional Saga Family (Ármann Jakobsson)7. Elegy and Old Age in Egil’s Saga (Alison Finlay)8. *Konutorrek: A Husband’s Lament (Oren Falk)9. Facebook for Vikings: Social Network Analysis and Egil’s Saga (Timothy R. Tangherlini)RECEPTION10. Egil Strikes Again: Textual Variation and the Seventeenth-Century Reworkings of Egil’s Saga (Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir)11. Bloody Runes: The Transgressive Poetics of Egil’s Saga (Jón Karl Helgason)12. A Selected Bibliography from the Online Annotated Bibliography of Egil’s Saga (Álfdís Þorleifsdóttir, Katelin Parsons, and Jane Appleton)
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