Unsettling: Transgression and Travel in the Literature of the Medieval North Atlantic

• Main Author: DeAngelo, Jeremy P
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: OpenCommons@UConn 2014
• Subjects: Medieval; Anglo-Saxon; Old English; Travel; Atlantic; Ireland; Iceland; Norse; Andreas; Beowulf; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/355; https://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6559&context=dissertations

This project examines the significance of travel, both as practice and metaphor, in Anglo-Saxon literature, placed in the context of the neighboring traditions of the Irish and the Icelanders. It identifies in early Irish, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse literature a metaphor wherein one’s literal movement (...