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Egil, the Viking Poet : New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga' /

"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, lan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Torfi H. Tulinius, 1958- (Autor, Editor ), Jón Karl Helgason, 1965- (Autor, Editor ), De Looze, Laurence (Autor, Editor )
Otros Autores: Poole, Russell Gilbert (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The construction of Egil's saga / Torfi H. Tulinius
  • Ars metrica and the composition of Egil's saga / Gurún 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.