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Edition: Hrafnagaldur Óðins (Forspjallsljóð) Annette Lassen (2011)

A scholarly edition of the late Eddic (or Eddic-style) poem 'Hrafnagaldur Óðins' (Odin's Raven Spell) by Annette Lassen, for the Viking Society for…

Reading list for essay question on Norse mythological material in Beowulf

Essay Title: ‘The incorporation of Norse mythological material in Beowulf is nothing more than a random assortment of half-remembered stories.’…

Reading list for essay question on Thomas Gray's Norse sources

Essay Question: How does Thomas Gray adapt his sources (Baldrs draumar and Darraðarljóð) in ‘The Descent of Odin’ and ‘The Fatal Sisters’?

Reading list for essay question on J. R. R. Tolkien and Norse sources

Essay Question: Which aspects of Norse mythology are borrowed and adapted by J. R. R. Tolkien in the construction of Middle-earth?

Reading list for essay question on Joanne Harris and Norse sources

Essay Question: What motivates Joanne Harris’s employment of Norse mythology in Runemarks, Runelight, and The Gospel of Loki?

Reading list for essay question on eddic poetry and Snorri Sturluson

Essay Title: ‘The primary value of eddic poetry and Snorri Sturluson’s Edda is located not in their aesthetic accomplishments but in their status as…

Reading list for essay question on Eddic poetry and Odinic wisdom dialogue

Essay Title: ‘There is ample evidence in the eddic corpus of a distinct genre of Odinic wisdom dialogue. The poems belonging to this genre are uniform…

Reading list for essay question on the figure of the poet presented in the skáldasögur

Essay Question: How is the figure of the poet presented in the skáldasögur (Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa, Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, Gunnlaugs saga…

Reading list for essay question on the role of poetry in the skáldasögur

Essay Question: Why do the authors of the skáldasögur (Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa, Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, Hallfreðar…

Essay Question: To what extent do the authors of Gísla saga Súrssonar and Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar critique Icelandic law and the sentence of…

Reading list for essay question on the legend of the Vǫlsungar and its sources

Essay Question: What are the major differences between the telling of the legend of the Vǫlsungar in eddic poetry and that in Vǫlsunga saga?

Reading list for essay question on the figure of the hero in Ǫrvar-Odds saga

Essay Question: How is the figure of the hero presented in Ǫrvar-Odds saga?

Reading list for essay question on mythological stories in Bragi Boddason’s Ragnarsdrápa

Essay Question: How are mythological stories depicted in Bragi Boddason’s Ragnarsdrápa?

Publications of the Viking Society

Digital PDF versions of printed works published by The Viking Society. Includes Old Norse editions, translations and secondary literature.

Thesis: 'How can his word be trusted?': speaker and authority in Old Norse wisdom poetry

Schorn's thesis on Old Norse wisdom poetry. The thesis is downloadable at the link for this item.

Citation:
Schorn, B. E. (2012). 'How can his…

Bjarkamál in fornu

The poem Bjarkamál in fornu in Old Norse, Danish and Swedish.

Book Review: 'Women in the Viking Age' by Judith Jesch

A review of Jesch, J., 1991 'Women in the Viking Age' (Woodbridge: Boydell) written by Carolyne Larrington and published in Alvismal. The link is to a…

Wiki: Heimskringla

Heimskringla is an online collection of Old Norse source material.

Burning Desires: Vikings in Britain and Ireland 750-1100

Course poster and essay questions for the Burning Desires course at the University of Nottingham. this exhibit gives you an idea of the coverage of…

Review: 'Women in Old Norse Literature: Bodies, Words, and Power' by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir

A review of Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, 2013 'Women in Old Norse Literature: Bodies, Words, and Power.' The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave…