Revisiting the Poetic Edda : Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend (Hardcover)

1. Heroic Homosociality and Homophobia in the Helgi Poems David Clark  2. Sigurðr, A Medieval Hero: A Manuscript-Based Interpretation of the "Young Sigurðr Poems" Edgar Haimerl  3. Dragons in the Eddas and in Early Nordic Art Paul Acker  4. Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context Daniel Savborg  5. Guðrunarkviða in fyrsta: Guðrun’s Healing Tears Thomas D. Hill  6. ‘Gerðit hon ... sem konor aðrar’: Women and Subversion in Eddic Heroic Poetry Johanna Katrin Friđriksdottir  7. ‘I have long desired to cure you of old age’: Mothers, Siblings and Murder in the Later Heroic Poems of the Edda Carolyne Larrington  8. Mythological Motivation in Eddic Heroic Poetry: interpreting Grottasongr Judy Quinn  9. The Eddica minora: A Lesser Poetic Edda?Margaret Clunies Ross  10. Fornaldarsogur and Heroic Legends of the Edda Elizabeth Ashman Rowe  12. Wagner, Morris and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty David Ashurst  13. Writing into the Gap: Tolkien’s Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrun Tom Shippey