Egil, the Viking Poet - New Approaches to ''Egil''s Saga''

The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil’s story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Egil, The Viking Poet: New Approaches to Egil’s Saga (Russell Poole)

COMPOSITION

2. The Construction of Egil’s Saga (Torfi H. Tulinius)

3. Ars metrica and the Composition of Egil’s Saga (Guðrún Nordal)

IDENTITY

4. The Concept of the Self in Egil’s Saga: A Ricoeurean Approach (Laurence de Looze)

5. Self-description in Egil’s Poetry (Margaret Clunies Ross)

EMOTIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

6. Emotions and Moral Issues in a Dysfunctional Saga Family (Ármann Jakobsson)

7. Elegy and Old Age in Egil’s Saga (Alison Finlay)

8. *Konutorrek: A Husband’s Lament (Oren Falk)

9. Facebook for Vikings: Social Network Analysis and Egil’s Saga (Timothy R. Tangherlini)

RECEPTION

10. Egil Strikes Again: Textual Variation and the Seventeenth-Century Reworkings of Egil’s Saga (Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir)

11. Bloody Runes: The Transgressive Poetics of Egil’s Saga (Jón Karl Helgason)

12. A Selected Bibliography from the Online Annotated Bibliography of Egil’s Saga (Álfdís Þorleifsdóttir, Katelin Parsons, and Jane Appleton)

About the author

Edited by Laurence de Looze, Jón Karl Helgason, Russell Poole, and Torfi H. Tulinius

Summary

The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil’s story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory.

Product details

• Authors: Laurence Helgason De Looze, Laurence De Helgason Looze
• Assisted by: Laurence De Looze (Editor), Jon Karl Helgason (Editor), Laurence de Looze (Editor), Russell Poole (Editor), Torfi H. Tulinius (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2015
• EAN: 9781442649699
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4969-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (Tonis); Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Se; Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (Tonis); Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Se
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries