Studies in the Transmission and Reception of Old Norse Literature: The Hyperborean Muse in European Culture

• Main Authors: QUINN, Judy, CIPOLLA, Maria Adele, Cipolla, Maria Adele, Quinn, Judy
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Brepols 2016
• Subjects: Cultural Heritage; Old Norse Literature; Identity (Culture); The reception of Old Norse Myth; Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture; Old Norse heroic saga and eddaic literature; Old Norse Poetry; and Old norse Translations and Rewritings; Norway; Strindberg; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11562/932219

The compelling world of the Vikings and their descendants, preserved in the sagas, poetry, and mythology of medieval Iceland, has been an important source of inspiration to artists and writers across Europe, as well as to scholars devoted to editing and interpreting the manuscript texts. A variety o...