文档介绍：Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society
Proceedings of the 11th International Saga Conference
2-7 July 2000, University of Sydney
Edited by Geraldine Barnes and Margaret Clunies Ross
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
July 2000
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Contents
David Ashurst 1
Journey to the Antipodes. Cosmological and Mythological Themes in
Alexanders Saga
Sverre Bagge 14
Rigsflúla and Viking Age Society
Richard N. Bailey 15
Scandinavian Myth on Viking-period Stone Sculpture in England
ta Battista 24
Interpretations of the Roman Pantheon in the Old Norse Hagiographic Sagas
Mai Elisabeth Berg 35
Myth or Poetry, a Brief Discussion of Some Motives in the Elder Edda
Claudia Bornholdt 44
The Bridal-Quest Narratives in fii›reks saga and the German Waltharius Poem
as an Extension of the Rhenish Bridal-Quest Tradition
Trine Buhl 53
Reflections on the use of narrative form in Hrafnkels saga Freysgo›a
Phil Cardew 54
Hamhleypur in fiorskfir›inga saga: a post-classical ironisation of myth?
Martin Chase 65
The Ragnarƒk Within: Grundtvig, Jung, and the Subjective Interpretation of
Myth
Carol Clover 74
Saga facts
Einar G. Pétursson 75
Brynjólfur biskup Sveinsson, forn átrúna›ur og Eddurnar
Alison Finlay 85
Pouring Ó›inn’s Mead: An Antiquarian Theme?
Elena Gurevich 100
Skaldic Praise Poetry and Macrologia: some observations on Óláfr fiór›arson’s
use of his sources
Jan Ragnar Hagland 109
Gerhard Schøning and Saga Literature
Anna Mette Hansen 118
The Icelandic Lucidarius, Traditional and New Philology
Lotte Hedeager 126
Skandinavisk dyreornamentik: Symbolsk repræsentation af en før-kristen
kosmologi
Frands Herschend 142
Ship grave