The Cold Counsel
Subtitle: The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 21, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780815319665
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Social & cultural anthropology; Women in literature; Literature: Classics; Norse And Icelandic Literature; Sexuality In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Old Norse; Iceland; Mythology, Norse; Ancient and Classical; European - Scandinavian; Social Science / Gender Studies; General; History and criticism; Old Norse literature
First sentence: THE TITLE OF THIS ESSAY IS TAKEN FROM CHAPTER 33 OF BRENNUNjals saga, in which Gunnarr asks the brothers Hrutr and Hoskuldr (his former enemies) how they would reply were he to ask to marry Hoskuldr's daughter, Hallgeror.