Prolonged Echoes: The reception of Norse myths in medieval IcelandProlonged Echoes is the second volume in the two volume study of Old Norse myths and their meaning both for us and for medieval Scandinavians, -- some of whom we should thank for the myths' written transmission through the Middle Ages and into modern times. The subject of Vol. 2 is the reception and use of Old Norse myths by the Cristian community of medieval Iceland. It requires us to consider a wider range of Old Icelandic texts, including those studied in volume one but extending to works that, while not taking myth as their subject, utilise it and references to it in their larger discourse. A number of excellent general studies that are available to assist readers unfamiliar with recent writing on early medieval Scandinavia are listed as an addendum. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
Myths to live by 2222 | 22 |
Myth and narrative | 44 |
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ancestors Andersson Bárðar saga Bishop Christian claim Clunies Ross compilation cultural descendants dominant Edda eddic Egils saga eigi Einarr Flateyjarbók Fóstbræðra saga genealogies gods Grettir Grettis saga Guðrún Haukr Haukr Erlendsson Hauksbók Helga high-seat pillars Hildigunnr Hrafn human Icelandic literature Icelandic saga Icelandic texts individual Ingólfr Íslendingabók Íslendingasögur Jakob Benediktsson 1968 Jón kinds kings Kormáks saga land land-taking landic Landnámabók landvættir Laxdæla saga literary Lón-Einarr male manuscript medieval Icelandic Meulengracht Sørensen Möðruvallabók mound mythic schemas mythological narrative Nordal Norway Norwegian Oddaverjar Óðinn Old Icelandic Old Icelandic literature Old Norse myth pagan paradigm poem poetic poets prose represented rituals saga Chapter saga genre saga literature saga writers sagas of Icelanders Scandinavian settlement age settlers skald skaldic poetry Skeggi Snorri Sturluson society sorcery story sub-classes supernatural thirteenth century traditional Vatnshyrna verse version of Landnámabók Viking writing þat þáttr þeir þeira Þorbjorg Þórðr Þorkell Þórr