New Studies on Emotion in Old Norse Literature

This volume presents thirteen original essays that explore how emotions are represented across a wide spectrum of Old Norse texts. Subjects range from love, sorrow, and humiliation to monstrous feelings, renowned lovers, representations of the mind, curiosity, desire, and many other forms of emotional experience. Reflecting the vibrant scholarly interest in medieval depictions of emotion, this volume brings together diverse methodological approaches and critical perspectives. The contributors examine emotive expression in Eddic and skaldic poetry, r?mur, romances, hagiography, medical texts, and runic inscriptions, as well as in major prose genres such as the kings' sagas, sagas of Icelanders, contemporary sagas, and legendary sagas.