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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grønlie, Siân, editor.

Phelpstead, Carl, editor.

Series:

The Northern Medieval World Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects--Europe--History.

Death.

Death--Europe--Religious aspects--History.

Material culture--Europe--History.

Material culture.

Death in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, [2024]

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.

Contents:

Intro

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 AEsir Themselves": Retelling the Master Builder Myth between Translation and Adaptation

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-5015-1659-0

OCLC:

1409681748