Old Norse Women's Poetry: The Voices of Female Skalds

by Sandra Ballif Straubhaar

The rich and compelling corpus of Old Norse poetry is one of the most important and influential areas of medieval European literature. What is less well known, however, is the quantity of the material which can be attributed to women skalds. This book, intended for a broad audience, presents a bilingual edition (Old Norse and English) of this material, from the ninth to the thirteenth century and beyond, with commentary and notes. The poems here...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843842718
• ISBN13: 9781843842712
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.6"