Bibliography III of IV

Scholarship on Old Norse Mythology and Icelandic Folklore

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Ármann Jakobsson. “Beware of the Elf! A Note on the Evolving Meaning of Álfar.” Folklore, vol. 126, no. 2, Routledge, May 2015, pp. 215–23, doi:10.1080/0015587X.2015.1023511.

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Ármann Jakobsson. “Loki’s Flexible Masculinity: Old Norse myths and medieval notions of gender.” Workshop on Nordic Men’s Media in Gothenburg, 16-18 Oct. 2008. 2019.

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Bassil-Morozow, Helena. “Loki Then and Now: The Trickster Against Civilization.” International Journal of Jungian Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, 2017, pp. 84-96.

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Birna Bjarnadóttir. “What the Bear Said: Skald Tales From New Iceland.” Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 45, no. 1/2, Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, Jan. 2013, pp. 267–68, doi:10.1353/ces.2013.0015.

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Canevaro, Lilah Grace. “Hesiod and Hávamál: Transitions and the Transmission of Wisdom.” Oral Tradition, vol. 29, no. 1, Center for Studies in Oral Tradition, 2014, pp. 99–126, doi:10.1353/ort.2014.0003.

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Cole, Richard. “Towards a Typology of Absence in Old Norse Literature.” Exemplaria, vol. 28, no. 2, Routledge, Apr. 2016, pp. 137–60, doi:10.1080/10412573.2016.1151201.

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Eson, Lawrence. “Odin and Merlin: Threefold Death and the World Tree.” Western Folklore, vol. 69, no. 1, Western States Folklore Society, Jan. 2010, pp. 85–107.

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Ferioli, Diego. “On the Oral-Formulaic Theory and Its Application in the Poetic Edda: The Cases of Alvíssmál and Hávamál.” Nordicum-Mediterraneum, vol. 5, no. 1, University of Akureyri, Mar. 2010, https://doaj.org/article/4769e997437747b5870a6b4b58bd76a8.

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Frankki, James. “Cross-Dressing in the Poetic Edda: Mic Muno Æsir Argan Kalla.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 84, no. 4, U of Illinois P, Dec. 2012, pp. 425–37, doi:10.1353/scd.2012.0063.

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Haukur Þorgeirsson. “Álfar í gömlum kveðskap [Elves in Old Poetry].” Són, Jan. 2011.

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Hobson, Jacob. “Euhemerism and the Veiling of History in Early Scandinavian literature. (Critical Essay).” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 116, no. 1, U of Illinois P, Jan. 2017, pp. 24–44, doi:10.5406/jenglgermphil.116.1.0024.

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Korstanje, Maximiliano. “Examining the Norse Mythology and the Archetype of Odin: The Inception of Grand Tour.” Tourism, vol. 60, no. 4, 2012, pp. 369–84.

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Kousoulis, Antonis A., et al. “Violent Death and Trauma in Norse Mythology: a Systematic Reading of the Prose Edda.” European Surgery, vol. 48, no. 5, Springer, Oct. 2016, pp. 304–10, doi:10.1007/s10353-016-0438-9.

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Langer, Johnni. “A morte de Odin? As representações do Ragnarök na arte das Ilhas Britânicas [The Death of Odin? The Representations of Ragnarok in the Art of the British Isles.” Medievalista, no. 11, Instituto de Estudos Medievais. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012.

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Langer, Johnni and Neiva, Weber. “Valquírias versus gigantas: modelos marciais femininos na mitologia Escandinava [Valkyries versus Giantesses: Female Martial Models in Scandinavian Mythology].” Revista Brasileira de História Das Religiões, vol. V, no. 13, Associação Nacional de História - ANPUH, May 2012, pp. 03–29.

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Markelova Olga. “The perception of Old Norse literature in modern Icelandic children’s literature.” Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Svâto-Tihonovskogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta: Seriâ III. Filologiâ, vol. 55, St. Tikhon’s University, July 2018, pp. 52–74.

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Mckinnell, John. “Motivation and Meaning in Lokasenna.” Essays on Eddic Poetry, University of Toronto Press, 2014.

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Moosbrugger, Mathias. “Recovering the Snorra Edda: On Playing Gods, Loki, and the Importance of History.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, vol. 17, 2010, pp. 105–20.

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Pridmore, Saxby, et al. “Suicide in Old Norse and Finnish Folk Stories.” Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 19, no. 4, SAGE Publications, Aug. 2011, pp. 321–24, doi:10.3109/10398562.2011.603331.

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Raffield, Ben, et al. “Religious Belief and Cooperation: a View from Viking-Age Scandinavia.” Religion, Brain & Behavior, vol. 9, no. 1, Routledge, Jan. 2019, pp. 2–22, doi:10.1080/2153599X.2017.1395764.

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Sayers, William. “‘ok Er Hann Einhendr’: Tÿr’s Enhanced Functionality.” Neophilologus, vol. 100, no. 2, Springer Netherlands, Apr. 2016, pp. 245–55, doi:10.1007/s11061-015-9462-4.

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Turco, Jeffrey. “Nets and Snares: The Loki of Snorri’s Edda and the Christian Tradition.” History of Religions, vol. 56, no. 2, U of Chicago P, Nov. 2016, pp. 198–231, doi:10.1086/688214.

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Wanner, Kevin J. “Sewn Lips, Propped Jaws, and a Silent Áss (or Two): Doing Things with Mouths in Norse Myth.” JEGP, vol. 111, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-24.

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Warnica, Richard. “Help Your elf (Iceland).” Maclean’s, vol. 125, no. 21, Rogers Publishing Ltd., June 2012.

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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.