Odin's ways : a guide to the pagan god in medieval literature /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lassen, Annette, author.
Uniform title:	Odin på kristent pergament. English
Imprint:	New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. ©2022
Description:	1 online resource ( 1 volume)
Language:	English
Subject:	Odin -- (Norse deity) -- In literature. Saxo, -- Grammaticus, -- -approximately 1204. -- Gesta Danorum. Odin -- (Norse deity) Gesta Danorum (Saxo, Grammaticus) Old Norse prose literature. Literature. Old Norse prose literature.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12779171

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Lesley, Helen, translator. Cormack, Margaret (Margaret Jean), translator.
ISBN:	9781003187981 1003187986 9781000469820 1000469824 9781000469899 1000469891 9781032123257 1032123257 9781032035710 1032035714
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Annette Lassen, since 2021 associate professor at The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, has published articles and books on Old Norse mythology, sagas of Icelanders, legendary sagas, eddic poems and the early modern reception of Old Icelandic literature along with an edition of Hrafnagaldur Ói̧ns / Forspjallsljó ̧(2011), scholarly anthologies on legendary sagas Fornaldarsagornas struktur och ideologi, 2003, Fornaldarsagaerne: Myter og virkelighed, 2009, Fornaldarsg̲ur Noru̧rlanda: Uppruni og þróun, 2012) and Vl̲usp ̀(The Nordic Apocalypse: Aproaches to Vl̲usp ̀and Nordic Days of Judgement, 2013). She has also published translations of the complete legendary sagas and sagas of Icelanders in Danish (Oldtidssagaerne, 2016-2019, Islnædingesagaerne, 2014). Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 31, 2021).
Other form:	Print version: Lassen, Annette. Odin på kristent pergament. English. Odin's ways. New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 9781032123257
Standard no.:	10.4324/9781003187981

Table of Contents:

The reception of Odin in research
Excursus : the vocabulary of 'myth' in an Old Norse/Icelandic context
Odin and the Roman gods in early Latin texts and Old Norse/Icelandic translations
The ecclesiastical explanations of paganism
Odin in various Old Norse/Icelandic genres
Odin in the contemporary saga Sturlunga saga
Odin in the courtly romances (riddarasögur)
Odin in kings' sagas (konungasögur)
Odin in the legendary sagas (fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda)
Odin in Skaldic poetry
Odin in the Gesta Danorum
Odin in Ynglinga saga
Odin in Snorri's Edda
Odin in the Eddic poems.

Similar Items