Echoes of Valhalla - The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas

Echoes of Valhalla shows how disparate, age-old poems and prose from medieval rural Iceland have become a part of our shared cultural experience today - how the eddas and sagas themselves live on. The book will appeal to the wide audience interested in Viking mythology and history, as well as films, books, music, graphic novels and tv series such as Vikings

About the author

Jón Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland.

Summary

Echoes of Valhalla is a unique account of modern adaptations of the Icelandic eddas (poems of Norse mythology) and sagas (ancient prose accounts of Viking history, voyages and battles).

Product details

• Authors: Jon Karl Helgason, Jón Karl Helgason, Helgason Jon Karl
• Assisted by: Jane Appleton (Translation)
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9781780237152
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-715-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other Germanic linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Ancient, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian, Folklore, myths & legends, Norse religion & mythology, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Icelandic, Norse religion and mythology, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)