Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Foreword: Old Norse and the Porous Boundaries of Medievalism xi
6. Acknowledgements xiv
7. Note on the Text xv
8. Introduction 1
9. 1 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Medieval Iceland: Saga Realism and the Sworn Brothers 8
10. 2 The Malleability of the Past: Íslendingabók as Narrative History 25
11. 3 Women’s Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland: Gender, Narrative, and Cloth Production 46
12. 4 Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print: Stability and Change in the Transmission of Eddic Poetry 68
13. 5 The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist 88
14. 6 What has Darwin to do with Óðinn? Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the ‘Great Story of the North 113
15. 7 Madness, Mythology, and Mitteleuropa: Günter Grass’s Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum 141
16. 8 Once More, with Fiction: Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný’s Blóðhófnir and the Eddic Poem Skírnismál 161
17. Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms 181
18. Bibliography 191
19. Index 213