Transformation and Identity in Old Norse Literature : The Human and Beyond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kreager, Adèle.

Series:

Studies in Old Norse literature

Studies in Old Norse Literature Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2026.

Summary:

Investigates how Old Norse myth, saga, and poetic traditions imagine human identity through encounters with animals, materials, and environments.

Contents:

Front Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Note on Conventions

Frontispiece

Introduction

PART I DISMEMBERMENT AND RE-ASSEMBLAGE

1 Wholeness and Partibility: Bodily Fragmentation in Mythological Narrative and Old Norse Poetics

2 Sword-Prostheses and Grafted Limbs: More-Than-Human Embodiment in Fornaldarsögur

PART II ENTANGLEMENT AND TRANSGRESSION

3 'Allir hlutir væri smíðaðir af nokkuru efni': Materiality, Personhood and Agency in Mythological Narrative and Old Norse Poetics

4 Humans, Animals and the 'Intimate Caesura': Transgression and Transformation in the Sigurðr-Cycle

PART III SHAPESHIFTING

5 Words of Change: Old Norse Terminologies and Concepts of Transformation

6 Tales of Change: Narrative Patterns and Thematic Functions of Transformation

Conclusion: Beyond Binaries and Between Boundaries

Bibliography

Index

Studies in Old Norse Literature.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781843848066