Introduction

• Main Authors: CIPOLLA, Maria Adele, QUINN, Judy
• Other Authors: Cipolla, Maria Adele, Quinn, Judy
• Format: Book Part
• 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; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11562/932220

Short Introduction to the collection of essays by scholars from Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, and the UK. They examine the scholarly and artistic reception of a variety of Old Norse texts from the twelfth-century Iceland to contemporary poetry, crime fiction, and graphic novels produced in Britain, Ireland, Italy, and Iceland.