The Medieval North and Its Afterlife: Essays in Honor of Heather O’Donoghue

Published by Medieval Institute Publications 2024

The Medieval North and Its Afterlife

Essays in Honor of Heather O’Donoghue

Edited by: Siân Grønlie and Carl Phelpstead

In the series The Northern Medieval World

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501516597

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About this book

This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures and their modern afterlives. The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature. Demonstrating the lively state of contemporary research on Old Norse and related subjects, this collection celebrates Heather O’Donoghue’s extraordinary and enduring influence on the field, as manifested in the wide-ranging and innovative research of her former students and colleagues.

Author / Editor information

Siân Grønlie is associate professor in Medieval Literature and Kate Elmore Fellow in English at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Carl Phelpstead is professor of English Literature at Cardiff University in Wales.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Siân Grønlie and Carl Phelpstead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Heather O’Donoghue: An Appreciation Carolyne Larrington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Heather Gareth Lloyd Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Part I: Old Norse Poetry and Saga
Chapter 1 “There Is Hope for a Tree”: Two Laments on the Loss of Sons Siân Grønlie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 2 A Wave of Sound: Rhythmicizing the Formal Artifice of Skaldic Poetry Annemari Ferreira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 3 Inspiring Storytelling in Saga Literature: Toponymic and Topographic Perspectives from Icelandic Folklore Matthias Egeler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 4 Healing Hands, Holy Water, and Hellish Diseases: Some Accounts of Medical Performance in Medieval Iceland Sarah Baccianti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 5 A Question of Balance: Excess and Lack in Njáls saga Laura Gormley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 6 Queenship, Learning, and Good Counsel in Flores och Blanzeflor Christian Carlsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 7 When Grímr and Gunnar Met Hálfdan and Harold: Women Dressed as Men in Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar and Walter Scott’s Harold the Dauntless Philip Lavender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Part II: Related Languages and Literatures of the Medieval North
Chapter 8 Seaworthy: Irish Immrama, Old Norse Voyage Tales, and the Women of the North Atlantic Amy C. Mulligan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Chapter 9 Christ’s Letter to Abgar in England and Ireland Emily Kesling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter 10 Norse, Irish, and English Songs: Communal Entertainment and Cultural Exchange in the Gesta Herwardi Eleanor Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Chapter 11 “No Good Song Is Ever Sung of a Traitor”: The Death of Earl Waltheof in Verse and Prose Erin Michelle Goeres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 12 Norse Names and Narratives in Havelok the Dane Hannah M. Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Chapter 13 Strong Language: An Old Norse Word and Northern English Richard Dance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Part III: Afterlives
Chapter 14 Mighty Men at Home: Domestic Environments and Heroic Masculinity in William Morris’s The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs Jessica Clare Hancock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Chapter 15 Tolkien and Mirkwood Matthew Townend Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Chapter 16 Past and Present Identities in Margaret Elphinstone’s Islanders Carl Phelpstead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Chapter 17 It’s not the End of the World: The Neo-Norse Cosmology of Joanne Harris David Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Chapter 18 “Here Are the Words of the Æsir Themselves”: Retelling the Master Builder Myth between Translation and Adaptation Tom Birkett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Audience: Skandinavist/-innen, Literaturhistoriker/-innen, Kulturhistoriker/innen
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 306
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
- Coloured Illustrations: 6
Keywords: Old Norse Literature; Icelandic Sagas; Skaldic Verse; Medievalism

eBook

Published: December 4, 2023
ISBN: 9781501516597

Hardcover

Published: December 4, 2023
ISBN: 9781501524837