Masculinities in Old Norse Literature PDF book is popular History book written by Gareth Lloyd Evans. The book was released by Boydell & Brewer on 2020-07-17 with total hardcover pages 287. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Masculinities in Old Norse Literature by Gareth Lloyd Evans in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which thi
This volume is the first book-length study of masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders. Spanning the entire corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders—and taking into
Nuanced and difficult as Loki's character can sometimes be, he is not without precedent in the Old Norse literary tradition. Instead, much of what makes him cha
The cultural and literary legacy of medieval Iceland, with its roots in Norse heathen religion, heroic literature, and Viking Age history, is the focus of this
This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a