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Shapeshifters in Medieval North Atlantic Literature
Representations of shapeshifters are prominent in medieval culture and they are particularly abundant in the vernacular literatures of the societies around the North Sea. Some of …
Margins, Monsters, Deviants
Medieval Icelandic literature has often been reduced to the supposedly realist Islendingasogur and their main protagonists at the expense of other genres and characters. Indeed, …
Þáttasyrpa – Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Sprache in Nordeuropa
páttasyrpa ist eine ,Serie'' von über 30 Beiträgen zu den mittelalterlichen und neuzeitlichen Literaturen, Kulturen und Sprachen Nordeuropas zu Ehren von Stefanie Gropper, die über …
Story, World and Character in the Late Íslendingasögur
Argues for new models of reading the complexity and subversiveness of fourteen "post-classical" sagas. The late Sagas of Icelanders, thought to be written in the fourteenth and …
Monsters in Society
Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity …