Gardens of the Old Gods: Ecocriticism of Yggdrasil in the Eddas

The Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda serve as the primary texts from which we draw our modern understanding of ancient Norse mythology. Central in these myths is the role of nature, which is depicted in a ways that are closely associated with contemporary understandings of the world in which we live,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Renger, James
Other Authors: Joan Peters
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Norse mythology
Old Norse literature
Nature in literature
Eddas
Yggdrasil
Iceland civilization
Ecocriticism
English Capstone Project
ENGL 499
Ygdrasil
Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/118617
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Summary:The Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda serve as the primary texts from which we draw our modern understanding of ancient Norse mythology. Central in these myths is the role of nature, which is depicted in a ways that are closely associated with contemporary understandings of the world in which we live, and there is no better demonstration in of the ecological concepts in these tales then Ygdrasil. By understanding the ecological connections in ancient Norse mythology through the Ygdrasil imagery, it is possible to make the eco-critical analysis of the mythology while shedding light on the very real contemporary environmental threats to the basis of one of the central images of their mythology.

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