Old Norse images of women
By: Jenny Jochens.
Series: Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Old Norse literature -- History and criticism.; Women -- Scandinavia -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.; Goddesses in literature.; Women in literature.; Mythology, Norse.; Women -- Mythology.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-319) and index.