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Informationen zum Autor Martin Chase is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, where he teaches Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His current research is on late- medieval Icelandic devotional poetry. He edited Geisli and Lilja for the Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages series. Klappentext Explores the blurring of boundaries between genres (skaldic and eddic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern) and cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, continental) in Old Norse-Icelandic poetry. Zusammenfassung Explores the blurring of boundaries between genres (skaldic and eddic)! periods (Viking Age! medieval! early modern) and cultures (Icelandic! Scandinavian! English! continental) in Old Norse-Icelandic poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Gunnlaugr Leifsson's Uses in Merlinusspa of Twelfth-Century English Sources Additional to the De Gestis Britonum of Geoffrey of Monmouth Russell Poole The Genesis of Strengleikar: Scribes! Translators! and Place of Origin Ingvil Brugger Budal Einarr Skulason! Snorri Sturluson! and the Post-Pagan Mythological Kenning Christopher Abram Skaldskaparmal as a Tool for Composition of "Early" Skaldic Poetry Mikael Males Hattatal Stanza 12 and the Divine Legitimation of Kings Kevin J. Wanner Creating Tradition: the Use of Skaldic Verse in Old Norse Historiography Rolf Stavnem Rattus Rattus as a Beast of Battle? Stanza 12 of Ragnars Saga Rory McTurk Wit and Wisdom: the World View of the Old Norse-Icelandic Riddles and Their Relationship to Eddic Poetry Hannah Burrows Devotional Poetry at the End of the Middle Ages in Iceland Martin Chase Love and Death in the Icelandic Ballad Paul Acker Steinunn Finnsdottir and Snaekongs Rimur Shaun F. D. Hughes Notes Bibliography Index
