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A history of old Norse poetry and poetics /

"Guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia"--Provided by publisher

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Clunies Ross, Margaret (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : D.S. Brewer, ©2005.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Old Norse poetic corpus
  • An indigenous typology of Old Norse poetry, 1: Technical terms; 2: Genres and sub-genres of Skaldic verse
  • Circumstances of recording and transmission
  • Old Norse poetic aesthetics
  • The impact of Christianity on Old Norse poetry
  • Poetics and grammatica, 1: The twelfth century; 2: The Edda of Snorri Sturluson; 3: The third and fourth grammatical treatises
  • The Icelandic poetic landscape in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.