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Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway

Chase, Martin

Hardcover

Series: Fordham Medieval Studies

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0823257819
ISBN13: 9780823257812
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Jun 2 2014
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse-Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres (Eddic and Skaldic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern), or cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, Continental) may not have been as sharp in the eyes and ears of contemporary authors and audiences as they are in our own. When questions of classification are allowed to fade into the background, at least temporarily, the poetry can be appreciated on its own terms. Some of the essays in this collection present new material, while others challenge long-held assumptions. They reflect the idea that poetry with medieval characteristics continued to be produced in Iceland well past the fifteenth century, and even beyond the Protestant Reformation in Iceland (1550). This superb volume, rich in up-to-date scholarship, makes little-known material accessible to a wide audience.

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