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Echoes of Valhalla: The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas
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Artikel-Nr:
9781780237152
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.06.2017
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Jón Karl Helgason
Gewicht:
426 g
Format:
223x141x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jón Karl Helgason is professor in the Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland. He is the author of several books on the modern afterlife of Icelandic medieval literature, including The Rewriting of Njáls Saga.
Tolkien's wizard Gandalf, Wagner's Valkyrie Brünnhilde, Marvel's superhero the Mighty Thor, the warrior heading for Valhalla in Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," and Donald Crisp's portrayal of Leif Eriksson in the classic film The Viking--these are just a few examples of how Icelandic medieval literature has shaped human imagination during the past 150 years. Echoes of Valhalla is a unique look at modern adaptations of the Icelandic eddas (poems of Norse mythology) and sagas (ancient prose accounts of Viking history, voyages, and battles) across an astonishing breadth of art forms.
Echoes of Valhalla shows how disparate, age-old poems and prose from medieval rural Iceland have become a part of our shared cultural experience today - how the eddas and sagas themselves live on. The book will appeal to the wide audience interested in Viking mythology and history, as well as films, books, music, graphic novels and tv series such as Vikings