Old Norse Poetry in Performance

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction by Terry Gunnell

Part 1: The Social Dynamics of Performance

Chapter 1: Framing Old Norse Performance Contexts: The Wedding at Reykjaholar (1119) Revisited by Stephen A. Mitchell

Part 2: Voice and Performance

Chapter 2: Revisiting Zumthorian Vocality in Old Norse Poetry Studies by Ines Garcia Lopez

Chapter 3: ...me? skar?a skjoeldu ok skotnar brynjur: The Distribution and Function of Aural Sense Impressions in Old Norse Poetry by Simon Nygaard

Chapter 4: Dramatic Implications of Echoed Speech in Skirnismal by Harriet Soper

Part 3: Collocation and Quotation

Chapter 5: Eddic Poetry and the Uses of Anonymity by John McKinnell

Chapter 6: Accretive Quotation and the Performance of Stanzas in Fagrskinna by Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen

Part 4: Material Culture

Chapter 7: Old Norse Poetry in Visual Art: a Comparative Perspective with the Islamic World by Rebeca Franco Valle

Chapter 8: How the Hell Do You Read This? - The Evolution of Eddic Orality through Manuscript Performance by Frog

Part 5: Modern Approaches to Performing Old Norse Poetry

Chapter 9: Old Norse Poetry in Performance: Perils, Pitfalls and Possibilities by Brian McMahon

Chapter 10: Interview with Leif Stinnerbom

Chapter 11: Interview with Einar Selvik

Chapter 12: Beowulf, the Edda, and the Performance of Medieval Epic: Notes from the Workshop of a Reconstructed 'Singer of Tales' by Benjamin Bagby

Chapter 13: 'i? be?ta e? quae?e? fm? flutt': Kve?nar Drapur og Kve?nar Rimur by Petur Huni Bjoernsson