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Pages: 302
Authors: Margaret Clunies Ross
Categories: Literary Criticism
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This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were a conspicuo
The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Mikael Males
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-16 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely cons
The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry
Language: en
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Authors: Seiichi Suzuki
Categories: Literary Collections
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This book is a formal and functional study of the three distinct meters of Old Norse eddic poetry, fornyrðislag, málaháttr, and ljóðaháttr. It provides a
Viking Mediologies
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Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-15 - Publisher: Fordham University Press

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Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has foc
Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Thomas Birkett
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-27 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon Eng