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

Info autore

Jón Karl Helgason is professor in the Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland. He is the author of several books on the modern afterlife of Icelandic medieval literature, including The Rewriting of Njáls Saga.

Riassunto

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).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jon Karl Helgason, Jón Karl Helgason, Helgason Jon Karl
• Con la collaborazione di: Jane Appleton (Traduzione)
• Editore: Reaktion Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9781780237152
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-715-2
• Pagine: 240
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Demologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altra linguistica germanica / letteratura; 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)