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Old Norse images of women

Author: Jenny Jochens
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1996.
Series: Middle Ages series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Working from the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and Old Norse prose narratives and laws, Jenny Jochens argues for an underlying cultural continuum of a pagan pantheon and a set of heroic figures shared by the Germanic tribes in Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland from AD 500 to 1500. Old Norse Images of Women explores the female half of this legacy, which involves images both divine and human.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Jochens, Jenny, 1928-
Old Norse images of women.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1996
(OCoLC)605025527
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jenny Jochens
ISBN: 0812233581 9780812233582
OCLC Number: 34357870
Description: xv, 326 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. The Germanic-Nordic Continuum --
Divine Images. 2. Ancient Female Figures. 3. The Classical Nordic Pantheon: Goddesses and Gender --
Human Images. 4. The Warrior Woman. 5. The Prophetess/Sorceress. 6. The Avenger. 7. The Whetter: Brynhildr. 8. The Nordic Whetter --
Appendix 1. Sources --
Latin Evidence --
Runes --
Northern Vernacular Writing --
Appendix 2. Historiography of Norse Women / Paul-Henri Mallet and Laurits Engelstoft.
Series Title: Middle Ages series.
Responsibility: Jenny Jochens.

Abstract:

Working from the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and Old Norse prose narratives and laws, Jenny Jochens argues for an underlying cultural continuum of a pagan pantheon and a set of heroic figures shared by the Germanic tribes in Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland from AD 500 to 1500. Old Norse Images of Women explores the female half of this legacy, which involves images both divine and human.

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