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Shapeshifters in Medieval North Atlantic Literature

  • Edited by: Santiago Francisco Barreiro and Luciana Mabel Cordo Russo
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019
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The Early Medieval North Atlantic
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The essays in this book highlight how shapeshifting cannot be studied in isolation, but intersects with many other topics, such as the supernatural, monstrosity, animality, gender and identity.

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Barreiro Santiago Francisco :

Dr Santiago Barreiro works as an assistant researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Buenos Aires. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Buenos Aires and an MA in Medieval Icelandic Studies from the University of Iceland. He has recently published a first translation of Hoensa-ióris saga into Spanish and co-edited (with Dr. Renan Birro) an introductory handbook on Norse studies aimed for Iberoamerican readers, plus numerous articles on medieval Icelandic literature and society.Cordo Russo Luciana Mabel :

Dr Luciana Cordo Russo (PhD in Literature — University of Buenos Aires) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Scientific and Technical Research Council-Argentina and teaches at the University of San Martín. She has published articles on medieval Welsh translations, co-edited a volume on medieval literary genres for the University of Buenos Aires Press (Eudeba) and translated for the first time into Spanish the traditional Middle Welsh tales conventionally known as ‘Mabinogion’.


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Medieval Thought and Shapeshifting
Santiago Barreiro and Luciana Cordo Russo
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Shifting shapes and meanings in Old English Riddles
Rafał Borysławski
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Talking about shapeshifting in medieval Iceland
Ármann Jakobsson
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The Hoard Makes the Dragon Fáfnir as a Shapeshifter
Santiago Barreiro
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Shape, Monstrosity and Berserkism in the Íslendingasögur
Rebecca Merkelbach
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A Study in Literary Representations of ‘Involuntary’ Shapeshifting in Early Medieval Irish and Old Norse Narrative Traditions
Camilla With Pedersen
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Notes on Bird-Shapeshifting, Bird Messengers, and Early Medieval Hagiography
Santiago Disalvo
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Changing Form in Medieval Welsh Literature
Luciana Cordo Russo
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