Old Norse Images of Women / / Jenny Jochens.
Working from the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and Old Norse prose narratives and laws, Jenny Jochens argues for an underlying cultural continuum of a pagan pantheon and a set of heroic figures shared by the Germanic tribes in Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland from A.D. 500 to 1500. Old Norse...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Germanic-Nordic Continuum
- 2. Ancient Female Figures
- 3. The Classical Nordic Pantheon: Goddesses and Gender
- 4. The Warrior Woman
- 5. The Prophetess/Sorceress
- 6. The Avenger
- 7. The Whetter: Brynhildr
- 8. The Nordic Whetter
- Conclusion
- Appendix One: Sources
- Appendix Two: Historiography of Norse Women–Paul-Henri Mallet and Laurits Engelstoft
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index