Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Series Editors’ Preface xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Acknowledgments xvii
7. Introduction. Old Norse Folklore: An Orientation 1
8. Part 1: Orality and Performance
9. 1. Orality, Oral Theory, and Memory Studies 27
10. 2. Continuity: Folklore’s Problem Child? 37
11. 3. Performance and Norse Poetry: The Hydromel of Praise and the Effluvia of Scorn 51
12. 4. Old Norse Riddles and Other Verbal Contests in Performance 77
13. Part II: Myths and Memory
14. 5. Skírnir’s Other Journey: The Riddle of Gleipnir 93
15. 6. The Goddess Gná 103
16. 7. Óðinn, Charms, and Necromancy: Hávamál 157 in Its Nordic and European Contexts 125
17. 8. Memory, Mediality, and the “Performative Turn”: Recontextualizing Remembering in Medieval Scandinavia 149
18. 9. Memory and Places That Matter: The Case of Samsø 169
19. 10. The Mythologized Past: Memory in Medieval and Early Modern Gotland 189
20. Part III: Traditions and Innovations
21. 11. Heroic Legend and Onomastics: Hálfs saga, Das Hildebrandslied and the Listerby Stones 209
22. 12. Courts, Consorts, and the Transformation of Medieval Scandinavian Literature 231
23. 13. On the Old Swedish Trollmöte or Mik mötte en gamul kerling 245
24. Works Cited 261
25. Index 319