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Andrew Wawn, ed.
Northern Antiquity: The Post-Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga.
Enfield Lock: Hisarlik Press, 1994.
ISBN 1874312184.
Hardback, perfect bound.
163x240x23mm.
x,342pp inc. 9 monchrome text figures.
English.
Unused bargain: these copies have some mild wear to the dustjackets.This item £5.00
[Publisher's price £39.95]
669g.
Contents:
Malm, Rudbeck's "Atlantica" & Old Norse poetics;
Hagland, Reception of Old Norse literature in late 18th-c. Norway;
Lundgreen-Nielsen, Grundtvig's norse mythological imagery - an experiment that failed;
Boyer, Vikings, sagas & wasa bread;
Driscoll, Traditionality & antiquarianism in the post-reformation lygisaga;
Glauser, Text, tradition & transmission in 19th- & early 20th-c. Iceland;
Helgason, "We who cherish Njáls saga" - the Alþingi as literary patron;
Byock, Modern nationalism & the medieval sagas;
Quinn & Clunies Ross, The image of Norse poetry & myth in 17th-c. England;
Wawn, The cult of "Stalwart Frith-thjof" in Victorian Britain;
Haraldsson, Auden, ancestry & Iceland;
Kennedy, English translations of Völsunga saga;
D'Arcy, George Mackay Brown & Orkneyinga saga.
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