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Old Norse Poetry in Performance

Old Norse Poetry in Performance

McMahon, Brian
Ferreira, Annemari

Paperback

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 1032252316
ISBN13: 9781032252315
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 29 2024
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 surviving evidence for how they were originally recited or otherwise performed in medieval Scandinavia, Iceland and at royal courts across Europe. This study also engages with the challenge of reconstructing medieval performance styles and examines ways of applying the modern discipline of Performance Studies to the fragmentary corpus of Old Norse verse. The performance of verse by characters who appear in the Old Icelandic saga tradition is also considered, as is the cultural value associated not only with the poems themselves but with their various means of transmission and reception.

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