"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. 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. This volume will be welcomed not only by the specialist and by scholars in adjacent fields but also by avid general readers, drawn in ever-increasing numbers to the Icelandic sagas and their world.
Author(s): Jeffrey Turco (ed.)
Series: Islandica, 58
Publisher: Cornell University Library
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: VIII+434
City: Ithaca, New York
Introduction / Jeffrey Turco 1
Hereward and Grettir: Brothers from Another Mother? / Andy Orchard 7
"Jafnan segir inn ríkri ráð": Proverbial Allusion and the Implied Proverb in "Fóstbroeðra saga" / Richard L. Harris 61
Seeking Death in "Njáls saga" / Torfi H. Tulinius 99
Skaldic Poetics and the Making of the Sagas of Icelanders / Guðrún Nordal 117
Identity Poetics among the Icelandic Skalds / Russell Poole 143
Loki, "Sneglu-Halla þáttr", and the Case for a Skaldic Prosaics / Jeffrey Turco 185
Beer, Vomit, Blood and Poetry: "Egils saga", Chapters 44–45 / Thomas D. Hill 243
The Old Norse "Exempla" as Arbiters of Gender Roles in Medieval Iceland / Shaun F. D. Hughes 255
Performing Gender in the Icelandic Ballads / Paul Acker 301
The Rök Inscription, Line 20 / Joseph Harris 321
A Landscape of Conflict: Three Stories of the Faroe Conversions / Sarah Harlan-Haughey 345
Non-Basic Color Terms in Old Norse-Icelandic / Kirsten Wolf 389
