This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a

This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. The contributors examine both eddic and skaldic poems and consider the

While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either

The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál serves as a representation of early pagan beliefs or myths and as a myth itself; the poem performs both of these functions, act

Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon.