| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 242 pages) |
| Series |
Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic series ; 9 |
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Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies ; 9.
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| Contents |
The construction of Egil's saga / Torfi H. Tulinius -- Ars metrica and the composition of Egil's saga / Guðrún Nordal -- The concept of the self in Egil's saga : a Ricoeurean approach / Laurence de Looze -- Self-description in Egil's poetry / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Thorolf's choice : family and goodness in Egil's saga, ch. 40 / Ármann Jakobsson -- Elegy and old age in Egil's saga / Alison Finlay -- *Konutorrek : a husband's lament / Oren Falk -- Facebook for Vikings : social network analysis and Egil's saga / Timothy R. Tangherlini -- Egil strikes again : textual variation and the seventeenth-century reworkings of Egil's saga / Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir -- Bloody runes : the transgressive poetics of Egil's saga / Jón Karl Helgason -- A selected bibliography from the online annotated bibliography of Egil's saga / Álfdís Þorleifsdóttir, Katelin Parsons, and Jane Appleton |
| Summary |
"Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil's transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder, and poet epitomizes the many facets of Viking legend. The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil's story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory. Strikingly original, their essays will appeal not only to dedicated students of Old Norse-Icelandic literature but also to those working in the fields of Viking studies, comparative ethnology, and folklore."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Laurence de Looze is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Western Ontario. Jón Karl Helgason is a professor in the Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland. Russell Poole is a professor emeritus of the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario and the managing editor of the journal Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. Torfi H. Tulinius is a professor in the Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Snorri Sturluson, 1179?-1241. Egils saga.
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| SUBJECT |
Egils saga (Snorri Sturluson) fast |
| Subject |
Sagas -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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Sagas
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
De Looze, Laurence, author, editor.
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Jón Karl Helgason, 1965- author, editor.
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Poole, Russell Gilbert, editor.
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Torfi H. Tulinius, 1958- author, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781442621237 |
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1442621230 |
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9781442621244 |
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1442621249 |
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