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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2015]
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Series: | Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies ;
9. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The construction of Egil's saga / Torfi H. Tulinius
- Ars metrica and the composition of Egil's saga / Guðrún 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.