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 Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812233581
Release Date: Jan 9, 1999
| |  | | | In Brief
Primarily based on the "record preserved in the Eddic lays of the Codex Regius manuscript and Snorri Sturluson's prose Edda, but also referring to skaldic poetry, prose sagas, and laws, and some Latin sources, this volume identifies and surveys images of both divine and human women of Old Norse literarytradition. The divine images range from goddesses to valkyries to sibyls. The human images are of warrior women, sorceresses, avengers, and whetters (women who goad men to action), the last playing a leading female role in the sagas of the Icelanders." (Choice) Bibliography. Index.
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Working from the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and Old Norse prose narratives and laws, Jenny Jochens argues for an underlying cultural continuum of a pagan pantheon and a set of heroic figures shared by the Germanic tribes in Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland from AD 500 to 1500. Old Norse Images of Women explores the female half of this legacy, which involves images both divine and human.
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| | | |  | | | | Preface | | | Introduction | 1 | | 1 | The Germanic-Nordic Continuum | 12 | | Divine Images | | | 2 | Ancient Female Figures | 33 | | 3 | The Classical Nordic Pantheon: Goddesses and Gender | 49 | | Human Images | | | 4 | The Warrior Woman | 87 | | 5 | The Prophetess/Sorceress | 113 | | 6 | The Avenger | 132 | | 7 | The Whetter: Brynhildr | 162 | | 8 | The Nordic Whetter | 174 | | Conclusion | 205 | | Appendix 1 | Sources | 217 | | Latin Evidence | 217 | | Runes | 218 | | Northern Vernacular Writing | 218 | | Appendix 2 | Historiography of Norse Women | 234 | | Abbreviations | 241 | | Notes | 245 | | Bibliography | 293 | | Index | 321 |
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Old Norse literature, History and criticism, Women, Scandinavia, History, Norse And Icelandic Literature, Women In Literature, History - General History, Literary Criticism, European - German, Medieval, Women, History and criticism, Women in literature, Scandinavia, Mythology, Norse, Middle Ages, 500-1500, Old Norse literature, Goddesses in literature
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