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This collection of essays introduces significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda: a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki and Thor. By applying theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist and post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this volume of essays seeks to yield a variety of powerful and convincing readings.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #829644 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 300 pages

From the Back Cover
This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this book yields a variety of powerful and convincing readings. Contributors to the collection are both young scholars and senior figures in the discipline, and are of varying nationalities (American, British, Australian, Scandinavian, and Icelandic), thus ensuring a range of interpretations from different corners of the scholarly community. The new translations included here make available for the first time to English speaking students the intriguing methodologies that are currently developing in Scandinavia. An essential collection of scholarship for any Old Norse course, The Poetic Edda will also be of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth.

About the Author
Lars Lonnroth, Paul Acker, Svava Jakobsdottir, Katrina Atwood, Carolyne Larrington, Joseph Harris, Carol Clover, Preben Meulengracht Sorensen, Philip N. Anderson, Jerold C. Frakes, Margaret Clunies Ross, John McKinnell, Thomas D. Hill, Judy Quinn