Bibliography III of IV

Scholarship on Old Norse Mythology and Icelandic Folklore

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Boyer, Régis. “On the Composition of Völuspá.” Edda: A Collection of Essays, edited by Haraldur Bessason and Robert J. Glenndinning, U of Manitoba P, 1983, pp. 117-133.

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Branston, Brian, et al. Goð og garpar: úr norrænum sögnum [Gods and Heroes: From the Norse Sagas]. Saga, 1980.

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Britt-Mari Näsström. “Fragments of the Past: How to Study Old Norse Religion.” Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, vol. 17, no. 2, The Donner Institute, Jan. 1999, pp. 177–85, doi:10.30674/scripta.67271.

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Carey, John. “Irish Parallels to the Myth of Odin’s Eye.” Folklore, vol. 94, no. 2, Taylor & Francis Group, Jan. 1983, pp. 214–18, doi:10.1080/0015587X.1983.9716279.

Article

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Davidson, Hilda R. Ellis. “Insults and Riddles in the Edda Poems.” Edda: A Collection of Essays, edited by Haraldur Bessason and Robert J. Glenndinning. U of Manitoba P, 1983, pp. 25-46.

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Dubois, Thoma A. Nordic Religions in the Viking Age. UP of Pennsylvania, 1999.

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Dronke, Ursula. Myth and Fiction in Early Norse Lands. Variorum, 1996.

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Faulkes, Anthony. “Pagan Sympathy: Attitudes to Heathendom in the Prologue to Snorra Edda.” Edda: A Collection of Essays, edited by Haraldur Bessason and Robert J. Glenndinning, U of Manitoba P, 1983, pp. 283-314.

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Flowers, Stephen E. The Galdrabók: an Icelandic Grimoire. S. Weiser, 1989.

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Frakes, Jerold. “Loki’s Mythological Function in the Tripartite System.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 86, no. 4, 1987, pp. 473-486.

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Gouchet, Olivier. “Siguror and the Women.” ReVision, vol. 21, no. 3, ReVision Publications, Jan. 1999, pp. 48–55.

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Gunnar Helgason, and Blöndal, Þórarinn Gunnarsson. Grýla. Hólar, 1997.

Book

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Hallberg Hallmundsson, et al. Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales. Iceland Review, 1987.

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Hallberg, Peter. “Elements of Imagery in the Poetic Edda.” Edda: A Collection of Essays, edited by Haraldur Bessason and Robert J. Glenndinning, U of Manitoba P, 1983, pp. 47-85.

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Haugen, Einar. “The Edda as Ritual: Odin and His Masks.” Edda: A Collection of Essays, edited by Haraldur Bessason and Robert J. Glenndinning, U of Manitoba P, 1983, pp. 3-24.

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Haukur Halldórsson. Trolls in Icelandic Folklore: Stories and Drawings. Örn og Örlygur, 1982.

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Haukur Halldórsson. Tröll: sögur og teikningar úr íslenskri þjóðsagnaveröld [Troll: Sagas and Drawings from Icelandic World Folktales]. Örn og Örlygur, 1982.

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Hermann Pálsson. Hávamál í ljósi íslenskrar menningar [Havamal from the View of Icelandic Culture]. Háskólaútgáfan, 1999.

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Hermann Pálsson. Heimur Hávamála [Havamal’s World]. Bókaútgáfa Menningarsjóðs, 1990.

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Jens Schjødt. “The Relation Between the Two Phenomenological Categories Initiation and Sacrifice as Exemplified by the Norse Myth of Óðinn on the Tree.” Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, vol. 15, Donner Institute, Jan. 1993, pp. 261–74, doi:10.30674/scripta.67215.

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Jón Aðalsteinsson. “Gods and Giants in Old Norse Mythology.” Temenos, vol. 26, Suomen Uskontotieteellinen Seura., Jan. 1990.

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Jónas Þór. The Christmas Trolls. 1st ed., Jónas Þór, 1990.

Book

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Klingenberg, Heinz. “Types of Eddic Mythological Poetry.” Edda: A Collection of Essays, edited by Haraldur Bessason and Robert J. Glenndinning. U of Manitoba P, 1983, pp. 134-164.

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Larson, L. “Icelandic Folktales & Legends.” Choice, vol. 42, no. 11/12, American Library Association dba CHOICE, July 2005, 1984, doi:10.5860/CHOICE.42-6324.

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Lindow, John. Scandinavian Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland Pub., 1988.

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Lindow, John. Murder and Vengeance Among the Gods: Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia/Academia Scientiaram Fennica, 1997.

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Marianne Görman. “The Necklace as a Divine Symbol and as a Sign of Dignity in the Old Norse Conception.” Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, vol. 16, The Donner Institute, Jan. 1996, pp. 111–50.

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Miller, Helga., et al. Redhead the Whale and Other Icelandic Folk Tales. Queenston House, 1985.

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Motz, Lotte. “Gods and Demons of the Wilderness. A Study in Norse Tradition.” Arkiv För Nordisk Filologi, vol. 99, C. W. K. Gleerup, etc., Jan. 1984.

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Motz, Lotte. “Trolls and Aesir: Lexical Evidence Concerning North-Germanic Faith.” Indogermanische Forschungen, vol. 89, K. J. Trübner, Jan. 1984.

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Motz, Lotte. “The Power of Speech: Eddic Poems and Their Frames.” Amsterdamer Beitrage Zur Alteren Germanistik, vol. 46, Jan. 1996, pp. 105–17.

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Mundal, Else. “The Position of the Individual Gods and Goddesses in Various Types of Sources - with Special Reference to the Female Divinities.” Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, vol. 13, The Donner Institute, Jan. 1990, pp. 294–315.

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Olina Thorvardardottir. “Spirits of the Land: A Tool for Social Education.” Bookbird, vol. 37, no. 4, Bookbird, Inc., Jan. 1999, pp. 33–34.

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“Ragnarok in North America.” Fenris Wolf 4, 1998.

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Ross, Margaret Clunies. Prolonged Echoes: Old Norse Myths in Medieval Northern Society. U of Southern Denmark P, 1994.

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Schach, Paul. “Some Thoughts on Völuspá.” Edda: A Collection of Essays, edited by Haraldur Bessason and Robert J. Glenndinning. Uof Manitoba P, 1983, pp. 86-116.

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Söderberg, Barbro. “Lokasenna - egenheter och ålder [Loki’s Quarrel: Peculiarities and Age].” Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi, vol. 102, C. W. K. Gleerup, etc., Jan. 1987.

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Taylor, Paul Beekman. “Völundarkviđa, Þrymskviđa and the Function of Myth.” Neophilologus, vol. 78, no. 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Apr. 1994, pp. 263–81, doi:10.1007/BF00999658.

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Taylor, Paul Beekman. Sharing Story: Medieval Norse-English Literary Relationships. AMS Press, 1998.

Book

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von See, Klaus. Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda [Comments on the Songs of the Edda]. Universitätsverlag Winter, 1997.

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von See, Klaus. Europa und der Norden im Mittelalter [Europe and the North in the Middle Ages]. C. Winter, 1999.

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Wawn, Andrew, editor. Northern Antiquity: The Post-Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga. Hisarlik Press, 1994.

Edited volume

All 184 entries from the original bibliography.

About these bibliographies

The bibliographies and links were begun in 2019 with the support of the Department of Icelandic Language and Literature and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba.

The first is annotated with the major sources each new work draws on. None claims to be comprehensive.

Credits

Editors: Christopher Crocker, Dustin Geeraert, Selina Heidinger Web Design & Technical Editor: Ryan E. Johnson Additional Research: Austin Quagleini With thanks to Migration: The 9th UM / University of Iceland Partnership Conference, From Iceland to the Americas, and The Afterlife of Eddas and Sagas.