Egil, the Viking poet : new approaches to Egil's saga /

Show other versions (1)

"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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: De Looze, Laurence (Author, Editor), Jón Karl Helgason, 1965- (Author, Editor), Torfi H. Tulinius, 1958- (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Poole, Russell Gilbert (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Series:Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies ; 9.
Subjects:
Snorri Sturluson, > 1179?-1241. > Egils saga.
Egils saga (Snorri Sturluson)
Sagas > History and criticism.
Sagas > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Sagas.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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.

Similar Items