Saga Emotions

Gareth Lloyd Evans, Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, Carolyne Larrington (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7726-1 (ISBN)

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A wide ranging discussion of emotions in the key historically oriented prose genres of medieval Iceland, explored through a range of case studies. -- .

Focusing particularly on historically oriented sagas, Saga emotions identifies and examines a range of emotions from across Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature. Each chapter begins with a discrete emotion term, such as reiði (anger), gleði (joy), or the peculiarly Old Norse víghugr (killing-mood), exploring its usages within the broad saga corpus, and focusing on its contextual meanings and narrative purposes. The contributions explore the specifics of the lexical terms used for different emotion states and offer in-depth case studies that consider how various emotions manifest within particular examples of saga literature. The book offers the emotional granularity lacking in current studies of Norse emotion and serves as an essential foundation for future research and study into emotional depiction in Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature. -- .

Gareth Lloyd Evans is Associate Professor of Old Norse at the University of Oxford and Official Fellow and Tutor in English at St John’s College, Oxford Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir is Assistant Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland Carolyne Larrington is Emeritus Professor of Medieval European Literature at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Research Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford -- .

Introduction
1 angr, hryggr (sadness) – Edel Maria Porter
2 ást (Christian love) – Siân Grønlie
3 ást, elska, unna (Secular love) – Sif Rikhardsdottir
4 aumka, líkn, sampíning (compassion) – Ásdís Egilsdóttir
5 berserksgangr and víghugr (going berserk and the killing mood) – Gareth Lloyd Evans
6 girnd (desire) – Alexander Wilson
7 gleði (happiness, joy) – Carolyne Larrington
8 harmr, ho¨rmung, sorg, tregi (grief) – Kristen Mills
9 leiðask, leiðendi, viðbjóðr (disgust) – Rebecca Merkelbach
10 ofsi (pride) – Kate Olley
11 ótti (fear) – Teodoro Manrique Antón
12 reiði (anger) – George Manning
13 skomm, skammask (shame) – Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo	5 tables
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	564 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5261-7726-9 / 1526177269
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-7726-1 / 9781526177261
Zustand	Neuware