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Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature

2022
An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and their legacy in later literary cultures. The "Viking Age" of medieval Scandinavia, with its heathen religion and heroic literature, continues to fascinate readers, writers, students, scholars, poets, artists, and creators of all kinds around
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Masculinities in Old Norse Literature

2020
First full investigation of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
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Children’s Literature and Old Norse Medievalism

2023
This book explores the ways in which contemporary authors respond to and rework key aspects of Old Norse history and viking culture for young twenty-first-century audiences. Why are contemporary authors and audiences so manifestly attracted to the viking past? In what ways do writers respond to Norse sources? How do the narratives they tell reflect our
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Discourse in Old Norse Literature

2021
An examination of what dialogues and direct speech in Old Norse literature can convey and mean, beyond their immediate face-value.
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Memory, Imagery, and Visuality in Old Norse Literature

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2015
What do we actually know about memory in the medieval Nordic world? there exists no learned treatise in the Old Norse literary corpus that explicitly deals with the ways in which Nordic writers perceived memory or with the techniques they used when training their memory.
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Masculinities in Old Norse Literature

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2023
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Old Norse–Icelandic Literature and German Culture

2011
The perception of Old Norse literature in post-medieval times moves between an aesthetically motivated international interest and its constriction initially to national and then nationalistic concerns. The article examines this development by analyzing how Old Norse material is used for the construction of a German national consciousness from the end ...
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Prolonged drying trend coincident with the demise of Norse settlement in southern Greenland

Science Advances, 2022
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