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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Old Norse-Icelandic"”.
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The Classical Barbarian in the Íslendingasögur
… in relation to parallel descriptions of Icelandic characters and lifestyle within the Íslendingasögur, and also in the context of a tradition in contemporary European literature which portrayed the Icelanders themselves as barbaric. Innovatively, comparisons are made with descriptions of …
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Boundaries of the Human: Identities, Ontologies and Transformations in Old Norse Literature
… reveals the relational and contingent nature of Old Norse ontologies as expressed in literary texts, which posit identity as an evolving process rather than a fixed state. Chapter 1 investigates the productive dismemberment of male bodies in mythic narrative (*Snorra Edda*, *Poetic Edda*), …