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Shapeshifters in Medieval North Atlantic Literature /
Representations of shapeshifters are prominent in medieval culture and they are particularly abundant in the vernacular literatures of the societies around the North Sea. Some of the figures in these stories remain well known in later folklore and often even in modern media, such as werewolves, drag...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Series: | Early medieval North Atlantic ;
5. Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : medieval thought and shapeshifting / Santiago Barreiro and Luciana Cordo Russo
- Wundor wear on wege 'a wonder happened on the way' : shifting shapes and meanings in Old English riddles / Rafał Borysławski
- The big black cats of Vatnsdalr and other trolls : talking about shapeshifting in medieval Iceland / Ármann Jakobsson
- The hoard makes the dragon : Fáfnir as a Shapeshifter / Santiago Barreiro
- Eigi í mannligu eli : shape, monstrosity and berserkism in the Íslendingasögur / Rebecca Merkelbach
- The cursed and the committed : a study in literary representations of 'involuntary' shapeshifting in early medieval Irish and Old Norse narrative traditions / Camilla With Pedersen
- Unde sunt aues istae? : Notes on bird-shapeshifting, bird messengers, and early medieval hagiography / Santiago Disalvo
- Sin, punishment, and magic : changing form in medieval Welsh literature / Luciana Cordo Russo.