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Vikings, Knights, Elves, and Ogres
Essays in Honor of Shaun F.D. Hughes
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Edited by:
Eric R. Carlson
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
In his nearly half a century in the English Department of Purdue University, Shaun Hughes has had an incalculable impact on his students and colleagues, and this volume acknowledges the debt that generations of scholars in medieval studies owe to him. It highlights Dr. Hughes’s decades of research in a variety of fields: Old English language and literature, Middle English language and literature, Old Norse language and literature, and Tolkien.
Author / Editor information
Eric R. Carlson is associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, U.S.A., where he holds the G.L. Toole Endowed Chair in English.
Dorsey Armstrong is Professor of English at Purdue University, West Lafayette, U.S.A., and Executive Editor of the journal Arthuriana. Her research interests include the Black Death, Medieval Women, and the Arthurian Legend, on which she has published extensively.
Arielle C. McKee (she/her) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University, U.S.A., and outreach coordinator for Arthuriana’s public humanities project, The So What.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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A Note on Terminology
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A Non-Exhaustive List of Resources Cited, Consulted, and Recommended
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Contents
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 “And if þou redez hym ryȝt”: Violence and the Poetics of Temptation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Chapter 2 “She hath þe keye and þe clycat”: Langland’s Marian Enigmas
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Chapter 3 Food and Foodspaces as Weapons in Medieval Outlaw Narratives
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Chapter 4 The Christ-Bearer Legend in Icelandic Prose and Poetry
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Chapter 5 Making and Breaking Private Spaces in Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar
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Chapter 6 Mimetic Crisis in the Fenrir Myth
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Chapter 7 War Fronts and Scattered Spear Showers: The Meteorology of Battle in Skaldic Poetry
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Chapter 8 Góðra vina fundur: Thoughts on J. R. R. Tolkien’s and E. V. Gordon’s “Viking Club” Songbook at Leeds, and Related Nordic Songbooks
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Chapter 9 The Reluctant King and the Heavenly Hero: The Failures of Beowulf and the Heliand
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Afterword
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Shaun Stories
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Contributor Biographies
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Index
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eBook published on:
March 31, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781501511325
Hardcover published on:
March 31, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9781501518928
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
12
Main content:
240
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0
Coloured Illustrations:
1
Keywords for this book
J.R.R. Tolkien; Old Norse; Old/Middle English; medieval literature; Middle Ages
Audience(s) for this book
Academics (Literary History, Historical Linguistics, Medieval Studies)
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