New Norse Studies: Essays on the Literature and Culture of Medieval Scandinavia (Islandica (58))

"New Norse Studies", edited by Jeffrey Turco, gathers twelve original essays engaging aspects of Old Norse–Icelandic literature that continue to kindle the scholarly imagination in the twenty-first century. The assembled authors examine the arrière-scène of saga literature; the nexus of skaldic poetry and saga narrative; medieval and post-medieval gender roles; and other manifestations of language, time, and place as preserved in Old Norse–Icelandic texts. This volume will be welcomed not only by the specialist and by scholars in adjacent fields but also by avid general readers, drawn in ever-increasing numbers to the Icelandic sagas and their world. New Norse Studies , edited by Jeffrey Turco, gathers twelve original essays engaging aspects of Old Norse-Icelandic literature that continue to kindle the scholarly imagination in the twenty-first century. The assembled authors examine the arrire-scne of saga literature; the nexus of skaldic poetry and saga narrative; medieval and post-medieval gender roles; and other manifestations of language, time, and place as preserved in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. This volume will be welcomed not only by the specialist and by scholars in adjacent fields but also by avid general readers, drawn in ever-increasing numbers to the Icelandic sagas and their world. Contributors: Paul Acker, Saint Louis University; Gurn Nordal, University of Iceland; Sarah Harlan-Haughey, Cornell University; Joseph Harris, Harvard University; Richard Harris, University of Saskatchewan; Thomas D. Hill, Cornell University; Shaun Hughes, Purdue University; Andy Orchard, University of Toronto; Russell Poole, University of Western Ontario; Torfi Tulinius, University of Iceland; Jeffrey Turco; Purdue University; Kirsten Wolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison Introduction / Jeffrey Turco 1 Hereward and Grettir: Brothers from Another Mother? / Andy Orchard 7 "Jafnan segir inn ríkri ráð": Proverbial Allusion and the Implied Proverb in "Fóstbroeðra saga" / Richard L. Harris 61 Seeking Death in "Njáls saga" / Torfi H. Tulinius 99 Skaldic Poetics and the Making of the Sagas of Icelanders / Guðrún Nordal 117 Identity Poetics among the Icelandic Skalds / Russell Poole 143 Loki, "Sneglu-Halla þáttr", and the Case for a Skaldic Prosaics / Jeffrey Turco 185 Beer, Vomit, Blood and Poetry: "Egils saga", Chapters 44–45 / Thomas D. Hill 243 The Old Norse "Exempla" as Arbiters of Gender Roles in Medieval Iceland / Shaun F. D. Hughes 255 Performing Gender in the Icelandic Ballads / Paul Acker 301 The Rök Inscription, Line 20 / Joseph Harris 321 A Landscape of Conflict: Three Stories of the Faroe Conversions / Sarah Harlan-Haughey 345 Non-Basic Color Terms in Old Norse-Icelandic / Kirsten Wolf 389