Saga emotions

360 Seiten, Hardcover

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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.

• Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein Antike, Klassik, Mittelalter
• ISBN: 9781526177261
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.06.2025
• Größe: 222 x 145 mm
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Carolyne Larrington, Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, Gareth Lloyd Evans