Old Norse Mythology
An Introduction to the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 23 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032672830
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages186 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 Illustrations, black & white; 17 Line drawings, black & white 700
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Short description:
Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential Eddic poems and Snorri Sturluson’s Edda, with a text-by-text approach explaining the content of each, how they represent Old Norse mythology, and the relations between texts.
MoreLong description:
Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential Eddic poems and Snorri Sturluson’s Edda, with a text-by-text approach explaining the content of each, how they represent Old Norse mythology, and the relations between texts.
Old Norse mythology was written in medieval Iceland and Scandinavia a couple centuries after the conversion to Christianity. As such, Old Norse mythology is a literary phenomenon that was created based on cultural memories and attitudes, particularly among Icelandic scholars. Mathias Nordvig offers invaluable insight into the distinction between the historical religion that existed in pre-Christian Scandinavia and the literary treatment of its cultural material in medieval sources. The guide features helpful illustrations and a timeline of the development of Nordic-Germanic culture, as well as an end-of-book overview of skaldic poets, skaldic and Eddic poems, medieval texts, runic inscriptions, and picture stones mentioned throughout the book.
This book is an important companion to studies in Old Norse mythology, and an essential read for students of Norse literature, mythology, medieval history, history of religion, and medievalism.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Source criticism and theory
Pre-Christian religions in Northern Europe
Old Norse mythology in medieval literature
The myths in poetry
Völuspá
Hávamál
Vafþrúðnismál
Grímnismál
Skírnismál
Lokasenna
Hymiskviða
Þrymskviða
Harbarðslióð
Alvíssmál
Völundarkviða
Heroic poems
Miscellaneous poems
The myths in prose
Snorri’s Edda
Prologue
Gylfaginning
Skáldskaparmál
Gesta Danorum
Heimskringla
Ynglinga saga
Saga excerpts
Short stories
Sörla þáttr
Ögmundar þáttr
Miscellaneous tales
Contemporary uses of Old Norse mythology
