The Cold Counsel: The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth

by Anderson,Sarah M.

• ISBN13: 9780815319665
• ISBN10: 0815319665
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Cold Counsel: The Women of Old Norse Literature and Mythis the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography, and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure, and ideology in medieval Iceland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: ``og eru kold kvenna rao''	xi
Sarah M. Anderson
``En hon er blandin mjok'': Women and Insults in Old Norse Literature	1	(14)
Zoe Borovsky
Hildigunnr's Lament	15	(40)
Carol J. Clover
Women's Voices in Old Norse Literature: The Case of Trojumnna saga	55	(26)
Randi Eldevik
Taming the Shrew: The Rise of Patriarchy and the Subordination of the Feminine in Old Norse Literature	81	(12)
Helga Kress
The Re-emergence of Women's Voices in Icelandic Literature, 1500-1800	93	(36)
Shaun F. D. Hughes
Vikings Westward to Vinland: The Problem of Women	129	(30)
Jenny Jochens
``Pegi pu, porr!'': Gender, Class, and Discourse in Prymskvioa	159	(8)
Jon Karl Helgason
Fathers, Mothers, and Daughters: ``Hver er ao raoa?''	167	(22)
Marianne E. Kalinke
A Good Day's Work: Laxdla saga, ch. 49	189	(12)
Jonna Louis-Jensen
Women's Counsel in the Riddarasogur: The Case of Parcevals saga	201	(24)
F. Regina Psaki
The Woman Who Knows: Female Characters of Eyrbyggja saga	225	(20)
Forrest S. Scott
Male Bonding, Female Body: The Absenting of Woman in ``Bisclaretz Ijoo''	245	(16)
Kerry Shea
Ambiguously Gendered: The Skalds Jorunn, Auor and Steinunn	261	(12)
Sandra Ballif Straubhaar
Women Outside: Discourse of Community in Havamal	273	(8)
Karen Swenson
Saga World and Nineteenth-Century Iceland: The Case of Women Farmers	281	(14)
Porunn Siguroardottir
The Contributors	295	(4)
Index	299