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Odin's ways : a guide to the pagan god in medieval literature / Annette Lassen ; translated from Danish by Helen F. Lesley-Jacobsen and Margaret Cormack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lassen, Annette, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Odin på kristent pergament. English
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Odin (Norse deity)--In literature.
- Odin.
- Saxo, Grammaticus, -approximately 1204. Gesta Danorum.
- Saxo.
- Odin (Norse deity).
- Old Norse prose literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Annette Lassen, since 2021 associate professor at The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, has published articles and books on Old Norse mythology, sagas of Icelanders, legendary sagas, eddic poems and the early modern reception of Old Icelandic literature along with an edition of Hrafnagaldur Ói̧ns / Forspjallsljó ̧(2011), scholarly anthologies on legendary sagas Fornaldarsagornas struktur och ideologi, 2003, Fornaldarsagaerne: Myter og virkelighed, 2009, Fornaldarsg̲ur Noru̧rlanda: Uppruni og þróun, 2012) and Vl̲usp ̀(The Nordic Apocalypse: Aproaches to Vl̲usp ̀and Nordic Days of Judgement, 2013). She has also published translations of the complete legendary sagas and sagas of Icelanders in Danish (Oldtidssagaerne, 2016-2019, Islnædingesagaerne, 2014).
- Contents:
- The reception of Odin in research
- Excursus : the vocabulary of 'myth' in an Old Norse/Icelandic context
- Odin and the Roman gods in early Latin texts and Old Norse/Icelandic translations
- The ecclesiastical explanations of paganism
- Odin in various Old Norse/Icelandic genres
- Odin in the contemporary saga Sturlunga saga
- Odin in the courtly romances (riddarasögur)
- Odin in kings' sagas (konungasögur)
- Odin in the legendary sagas (fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda)
- Odin in Skaldic poetry
- Odin in the Gesta Danorum
- Odin in Ynglinga saga
- Odin in Snorri's Edda
- Odin in the Eddic poems.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 31, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lassen, Annette. Odin på kristent pergament. English. Odin's ways.
- ISBN:
- 9781003187981
- 1003187986
- 9781000469820
- 1000469824
- 9781000469899
- 1000469891
- Publisher Number:
- 40030891690
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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