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Andrew Wawn, ed.
Northern Antiquity: The Post-Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga.
Published Enfield Lock: Hisarlik Press, 1994.
ISBN 1874312184.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printed in the UK: Redwood Books Ltd.
Size: 163x240x23mm.
Page count: x,342pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and scratches on the dustjacket, a bit of wear at its edges and corners; some mild wear on boards and spine, otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £8.00
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[Publisher’s price £39.95]
Weight without packaging: 669g.

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Contents:
Malm, Rudbeck's "Atlantica" & Old Norse poetics;
Hagland, Reception of Old Norse literature in late 18th‑c. Norway;
Lundgreen-Nielsen, Grundtvig's norse mythological imagery — an experiment that failed;
Boyer, Vikings, sagas & wasa bread;
Driscoll, Traditionality & antiquarianism in the post-reformation lygisaga;
Glauser, Text, tradition & transmission in 19th- & early 20th‑c. Iceland;
Helgason, "We who cherish Njáls saga" — the Alþingi as literary patron;
Byock, Modern nationalism & the medieval sagas;
Quinn & Clunies Ross, The image of Norse poetry & myth in 17th‑c. England;
Wawn, The cult of "Stalwart Frith-thjof" in Victorian Britain;
Haraldsson, Auden, ancestry & Iceland;
Kennedy, English translations of Völsunga saga;
D’Arcy, George Mackay Brown & Orkneyinga saga.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: 9, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: at end of each essay
Index: yes 

See also | Saga studies | Medievalism |
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