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

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