Bibliography III of IV

Scholarship on Old Norse Mythology and Icelandic Folklore

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Acker, Paul., and Larrington, Carolyne, editors. The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology. Routledge, 2002.

Edited volume

Ármann Jakobsson. “The Extreme Emotional Life of Volundr the elf. (Volundarkvida poem) (Critical Essay).” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 78, no. 3, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Sept. 2006, pp. 227–54.

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Ármann Jakobsson. “A contest of cosmic fathers: God and giant in Vafþrúðnismál,” Neophilologus 92, 2008, pp. 263–77.

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Bedell, J. M. (Jane M.), and Gunnell, Terry. Hildur, Queen of the Elves: and Other Icelandic Legends. Interlink Books, 2007.

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Blain, Jenny, et al. “Heathenry.” Handbook of Contemporary Paganism, vol. 2, 2009, pp. 413–32, doi:10.1163/ej.9789004163737.i-650.114.

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Ciklamini, Marlene. “Folklore and Hagiography in Arngrimr’s Gudmundar Saga Arasonar.” Fabula, vol. 49, no. 1-2, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Jan. 2008, pp. 1–18, doi:10.1515/FABL.2008.002.

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Clark, David and Phelpstead, Carl, editors. Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture. Viking Society, 2007.

Edited volume

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Doutreleau, Vanessa. “Elves And Relationships with Nature in Iceland.” Ethnologie Française, vol. 33, no. 4, Presses Universitaires de France, Dec. 2003, pp. 655–63, doi:10.3917/ethn.034.0655.

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Fimi, Dimitra. “Icelandic Folktales and Legends.” Folklore, vol. 118, no. 3, Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1 Dec. 2007, pp. 366–67.

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Guðrún Tryggvadóttir, et al. Myths & Monsters in Icelandic Folk Tales. Salka, 2002.

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Jón Karl Helgason. “‘Þegi Þú, Þórr!’: Gender, Class, and Discourse in Þrymskviða.” Cold Counsel: Women in Old Norse Literature and Mythology, edited by Sarah M. Anderson with Karen Swenson. Routledge, 2002, pp. 159-66.

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Jón Baldur Hlíðberg, et al. Meeting with Monsters: An Illustrated Guide to the Beasts of Iceland. JPV, 2008.

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Lafayllve, Patricia M. Freyja, Lady, Vanadis: An Introduction to the Goddess. Outskirts Press, 2006.

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Lannom, Gloria. “Identify the Norse Gods.” Calliope, vol. 13, no. 5, Carus Publishing Company, d/b/a ePals Media, Jan. 2003, p. 42.

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Lindow, John. “Norse Mythology and the Lives of the Saints.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 73, no. 3, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Sept. 2001, pp. 437–56.

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Lindow, John. Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford UP, 2002.

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Lindow, John. “Mythology and Mythography.” Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide, edited by Carol J. Clover and John Lindow. University of Toronto Press (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching 42), 2005, pp. 21-67.

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Mala, Elisa. “Magic Kingdom: In a Land of Elves, You’re Never alone. (GLOBAL PSYCHE: ICELAND).” Psychology Today, vol. 41, no. 3, Sussex Publishers, Inc., May 2008.

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Malm, Mats. “Baldrs Draumar and the Generic Turn.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 76, no. 1, 2004, pp. 1-20.

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Mandt, Gro. “Fragments of Ancient Beliefs: The Snake as a Multivocal Symbol in Nordic Mythology.” ReVision, vol. 23, no. 1, ReVision Publications, July 2000, pp. 17–22.

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Mckinnell, John. “Wisdom from the dead: the Ljóðatal section of Hávamál.” Medium Aevum, vol. 76, no. 1, Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, Jan. 2007, pp. 85–115, doi:10.2307/43632298.

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Mogenson, Greg. Northern Gnosis: Thor, Baldr, and the Volsungs in the Thought of Freud and Jung. Spring Journal Books, 2005.

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North, Richard. “Goð geyja: The Limits of Humour in Old Norse-Icelandic Paganism.” Quaestio Insularis: Selected Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 1, 2000, pp. 1-22.

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North, Richard. “Loki’s Gender, or Why Skaði Laughed.” Monsters and the Monstrous in Medieval Northwest Europe, edited by K. E. Olsen and L. A. J. R. Houwen (Mediaevalia Groningana New Series, 3), Louvain, 2001, 141-51.

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North, Richard. “End Time and the date of Vǫluspá: Two Models of Conversion.” Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England, edited by Catherine E. Karkov and Nicholas Howe (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies Series, 318), U of Arizona P, 2006, pp. 213-236.

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O’Donoghue, Heather. Old Norse-Icelandic Literature. Blackwell, 2004.

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O’Donoghue, Heather. From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths. I. B. Tauris, 2007.

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O’Donoghue, Heather. 2014. English Poetry and Old Norse Myth. Oxford UP, 2004.

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Orton, Peter. “Pagan Myth and Religion.” A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture, edited by Rory McTurk. Wiley-Blackwell, 2005, pp. 302-19.

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Pilkington, Brian. Stumble: an Icelandic Troll Story. Mál og menning, 2000.

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Pilkington, Brian. The Yule Lads. Mál og menning, 2001.

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Pilkington, Brian, and Gunnell, Terry. Icelandic Trolls. Mál og menning, 2003.

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Ross, Margaret Clunies, editor. Old Icelandic Literature and Society. Cambridge UP, 2000.

Edited volume

Russell, Laura. “The Huldufolk: An Icelandic Folktale.” Faces, vol. 16, no. 9, Carus Publishing Company, d/b/a ePals Media, May 2000, pp. 40–43.

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Sesselja Bigseth. “Spotting Elves in Iceland.” Spirituality & Health Magazine, July 2004.

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Solli, Brit. “Queering the Cosmology of the Vikings: A Queer Analysis of the Cult of Odin and ‘Holy White Stones.’” Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 54, no. 1-2, Taylor & Francis Group, Apr. 2008, pp. 192–208, doi:10.1080/00918360801952085.

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Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson. “The Reception of Old Norse Myths in Icelandic Romanticism.” Det norrøne og det nationale. Studier i brugen af Islands gamle litteratur i nationale sammenhænge i Norge, Sverige, Island, Storbritannien, Tyskland og Danmark. Stofnun Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur í erlendum tungumálum, 2008, 103–121.

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Thorvaldsen, Bernt Øyvind. “Om Þrymskviða, tekstlån og tradisjon [On Thrym’s Poem, and Traditions.” Maal og minne, no. 2, 2008, pp. 142–66.

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Tolley, Clive. Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic. Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2009.

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Unnur Jökulsdóttir, and Árni Einarsson. Hefurðu séð huldufólk?: ferðasaga [Have You Seen the Hidden People?: An Itinerary]. Mál og menning, 2007.

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Vilborg Davíðsdóttir. “Elves on the Move: Midwinter Mumming and House-visiting in Iceland.” Masks and mumming in the nordic area, edited by Terry Gunnell, Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur, 2007, pp. 643–666.

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von Schnurbein, Stefanie. “Function of Loki in Snorri Sturluson’s ‘Edda.’” History of Religions, vol. 40, no. 2, 2000, pp. 109-124.

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von Schnurbein, Stefanie. “Shamanism in the Old Norse Tradition: A Theory Between Ideological Camps.” History of Religions, vol. 43, no. 2, U of Chicago P, Nov. 2003, pp. 116–38, doi:10.1086/423007.

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Wanner, Kevin J. “Cunning Intelligence in Norse Myth: Loki, Inn, and the Limits of Sovereignty.” History of Religions, vol. 48, no. 3, U of Chicago P, Feb. 2009, pp. 211–46, doi:10.1086/598231.

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Wanner, Kevin J. Snorri Sturluson and the Edda: The Conversion of Cultural Capital in Medieval Scandinavia. U of Toronto P, 2008.

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Wawn, Andrew, Johnson, Graham, and Walter, John, editors. Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of T. A. Shippey. Brepols, 2007.

Edited volume

Wawn, Andrew. “The Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse and Old Icelandic Literature.” A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture, edited by Rory McTurk. Wiley-Blackwell, 2005, pp. 320-337.

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Wawn, Andrew. The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in 19th-Century Britain. D. S. Brewer, 2000.

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Wellendorf, Jonas. “Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Old Norse Cosmology.” Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives, edited by A. Andrén et al., 2006, pp. 50-53.

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Wiener, Harvey S., and John Lindow. Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2002.

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Wolf, Kirsten. “The Colors of the Rainbow in Snorri’s Edda.” Maal Og Minne, vol. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 51–62.

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Zarins, Kimberly. “The Eddas: Iceland’s Books of Lore.” Calliope, vol. 13, no. 5, Cobblestone Publishing, a division of Carus Publishing Company, Jan. 2003.

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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.