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Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry

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"Speaker and Authority" is an analysis of wisdom as represented in traditional medieval Scandinavian poetry. Its focus is on how wisdom was gained and exchanged through adversarial dialogue, often between supernatural beings such as gods and giants. This study brings together material from across the whole corpus of eddic poetry to consider how this mode was adapted by medieval authors to Christian and other sapiential traditions.

Author(s): Brittany Erin Schorn
Series: Trends in Medieval Philology, 34
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2017

Language: English
Pages: X+198

1. Introduction: a Word to the Wise 1
2. 'Gáttir allar, áðr gangi fram, um scoðask scyli': Approaching Wisdom in Eddic Poetry 17
3. Mankind and the Supernatural World in Eddic Wisdom Verse 37
4. Speaker and Situation in the Mythological Frames of Wisdom Poetry 85
5. Traditional Forms and Christian Authority 117
6. The Authority of Wisdom 149
7. Abbreviations 173
8. Bibliography 175
9. Index 196