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Laughing Shall I Die

Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
368 Seiten
Englisch
Reaktion Bookserschienen am14.09.2020
A robust new account of the Vikings, which explores their fascination with heroic death.mehr
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Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
MapsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Dying Hard1 The Viking Mindset: Three Case Studies2 Hygelac and Hrolf: False Dawn for the Vikings3 Volsungs and Nibelungs: Avenging Female Furies4 Ragnar and the Ragnarssons: Snakebite and Success5 Egil the Ugly and King Blood-axe: Poetry and the PsychopathPart II: Moving to the Bigger Picture6 Weaving the Web of War: The Road to Clontarf7 Two Big Winners: The Road to Normandy8 Furs and Slaves, Wealth and Death: The Road to MiklagardPart III: The Tale in the North9 The Jarls and the Jomsvikings: A Study in Drengskapr10 A Tale of Two Olafs; or, The Tales People Tell11 A Tale of Two Haralds: Viking Endgame12 Viking Aftermath: The Nine Grins of Skarphedin NjalssonAppendix A: On Poetry: Types, Texts, TranslationsAppendix B: On Sagas: Types, Texts, TranslationsAppendix C: Snorri SturlusonReferencesBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndexmehr

Autor

Tom Shippey has taught at six universities in the United Kingdom and the United States, including Oxford and Harvard. He is well-known for his writings on medieval literature and on the way that literature has been re-created in modern times--notably by Professor J. R. R. Tolkien, whom he followed as chair of English language and medieval literature at the University of Leeds. He is professor emeritus at Saint Louis University, Missouri, and the author of many books, including The Road to Middle-Earth, J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, and Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction, as well as the editor of The Critical Heritage: Beowulf and The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous.