Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature – New Perspectives

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword: Old Norse and the Porous Boundaries of Medievalism, Tom Shippey Acknowledgements Note on the Text Introduction, Christopher Crocker and Dustin Geeraert 1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Medieval Iceland: Saga Realism and the Sworn Brothers, Ármann Jakobsson 2. The Malleability of the Past: Íslendingabókas Narrative History, Martina Ceolin 3. Women's Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland: Gender, Narrative, and Cloth Production, Meghan Korten 4. Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print: Stability and Change in the Transmission of Eddic Poetry, Andrew McGillivray 5. The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist, Ryan E. Johnson 6. What has Darwin to do with Óðinn? Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the 'Great Story of the North', Dustin Geeraert 7. Madness, Mythology, and Mitteleuropa: Günter Grass's Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum, Heather O'Donoghue 8. Once More, with Fiction: Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný's Blóðhófnir and The Eddic Poem Skírnismál, Christopher Crocker Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms, M.J. Toswell Bibliography Index