![]() ![]() JUDITH JESCH is Reader in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham. Hill: Beer, Vomit, Blood and Poetry: Egils saga, Chapters 44-45 Shaun F. Women in the Viking Age explores anunfamiliar aspect of medieval history and. Tulinius: Seeking Death in Njáls saga Guðrún Nordal: Skaldic Poetics and the Making of the Sagas of Icelanders Russell Poole: Identity Poetics among the Icelandic Skalds Jeffrey Turco: Loki, Sneglu-Halla þáttr, and the Case for a Skaldic Prosaics Thomas D. and is the Director of the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age. Harris: “Jafnan segir inn ríkri ráð”: Proverbial Allusion and the Implied Proverb in Fóstbrœðra saga Torfi H. Table of Contents Preface Jeffrey Turco, volume editor: Introduction Andy Orchard: Hereward and Grettir: Brothers from Another Mother? Richard L. This volume will be welcomed not only by the specialist and by scholars in adjacent fields but also by the avid general reader, drawn in ever-increasing number to the Icelandic sagas and their world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The assembled authors examine the arrière-scène of saga literature the nexus of skaldic poetry and saga narrative medieval and post-medieval gender roles and other manifestations of language, time, and place as preserved in Old Norse–Icelandic texts. New Norse Studies, edited by Jeffrey Turco, gathers twelve original essays engaging aspects of Old Norse–Icelandic literature that continue to kindle the scholarly imagination in the twenty-first century. ![]()
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