The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature / / Mikael Males.
This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely conservative form of literature, namely skaldic poetry, was at the core of the most innovative literary and intellectual experiments in the period...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 353 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Translations
- Introduction
- 1. Metre and Rhyme
- 2. Diction: Mythology, Wordplay, Metaphor and Tmesis
- 3. Grammatical Literature
- 4. Prosimetrical Narrative
- 5. Poetry, Language and Snorri’s Edda in the Mid-Fourteenth Century
- 6. Conclusions
- Appendix: Texts by the Wormianus Redactor
- Bibliography
- Index