#old norse literature
Chaucer and Old Norse Mythology
Chaucer and Old Norse Mythology Rory McTurk School of English, University of Leeds In a paper currently awaiting publication I have argued that the story in Skáldskaparmál of Óðinn’s theft of the poetic mead is an analogue to the story told in Chaucer’s House of Fame, for three main reasons. First, both stories may be said to involve an eagle as a mediator between different kinds of poetry: in…
The Lost Literature of Medieval Iceland
The Lost Literature of Medieval Iceland: Sagas of Icelanders Judith Jesch PhD Thesis, University College London (1984). Click here to read this thesis at Academia.edu
The Varangian legend: testimony from the Old Norse sources
The Varangian legend: testimony from the Old Norse sources Sverrir Jakobsson In the eleventh century there existed, within the great army of the Byzantine empire, a regiment composed mainly o soldiers from Scandinavia and the Nordiccountries. This regiment was known as the Varangian Guard (tagma tōn Varangōn).The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact the existence of this regiment had…
Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils saga
Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils sagaSantiago Barreiro
Network & Neighbours, vol. 3, n. 1 (2015)
This study analyses the way in which the thirteenth-century Egils saga Skallagrímssonar presented the migration to Iceland of Egill’s father Grímr and grandfather Úlfr, and the creation of a settlement in the area of Borgarfjǫrðr in Western Iceland during the tenth…
Hesiod and Hávamál: Transitions and the Transmission of Wisdom
Hesiod and Hávamál: Transitions and the Transmission of WisdomLilah Grace Canevaro
Oral Tradition Volume 29, Number 1
This article offers fresh insights into Hesiod’s Works and Days by comparing it with the Eddic Hávamál, a didactic poem far removed in terms of geography and date, but compellingly close in subject matter, construction, and transmission. It finds parallels between the poems in…
