General Bibliography

 

 

Texts and Translations

Dronke, Ursula, ed. and tr. The Poetic Edda. I: Heroic Poems. 1969. II: Mythological Poems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. [Vols. III and IV in preparation.]

Faulkes, Anthony, ed. Snorri Sturluson: Edda. I: Prologue and Gylfaginning. 1982. III: Háttatal. 1991. II: Skáldskaparmál. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.

Faulkes, Anthony, ed., trans. Snorri Sturluson: Edda. London: J.M. Dent, 1987.

Hollander, Lee M., tr. The Poetic Edda. 2nd ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962.

La Farge, Beatrice and John Tucker. Glossary to the Poetic Edda. Based on Hans Kuhn’s Kurzes Wörterbuch. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1992.

Larrington, Carolyne, tr. The Poetic Edda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Neckel, Gustav, ed. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. I: Text. 1914. 4th ed. rev. Hans Kuhn, 1962. 5th ed. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1983.

Terry, Patricia, tr. Poems of the Elder Edda. Rev. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Reference

Bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic Studies (BONIS). [Annual, 1963–83. Supplement at Odense Universitetsbibliotek is accessible via telnet.]

Clover, Carol J. and John Lindow, eds. Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide. Islandica, 45. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985.

Hannesson, Johann S. Bibliography of the Eddas: A Supplement to Bibliography of the Eddas (Islandica XIII). Islandica, 37. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1955.

Hermannsson, Halldór. Bibliography of the Eddas. Islandica, 13. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1920.

Lindow, John. Scandinavian Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.

Pulsiano, Phillip and Kirsten Wolf, eds. With Paul Acker and Donald K. Fry. Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993.

Kellogg, Robert. A Concordance to Eddic Poetry. East Lansing, Mich.: Colleagues Press, 1988.

Strayer, Joseph R., ed. Dictionary of the Middle Ages. New York: Scribner’s, 1982–9.

Handbooks and Studies of Old Norse Mythology

Bauschatz, Paul C. The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982.

Clunies Ross, Margaret. Prolonged echoes. Old Norse myths in medieval Northern society. I: The Myths. II: The reception of Norse myths in medieval Iceland. The Viking Collection: Studies in Northern Civilization, 7, 10. Odense: Odense University Press, 1994, 1998.

Davidson, Hilda Ellis. The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe. London: Routledge, 1993.

DuBois, Thomas A. Nordic Religions in the Viking Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Dumézil, Georges. 1959. Gods of the Ancient Northmen. Tr. ed. Einar Haugen. Publications of the UCLA Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology, 3. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

Jochens, Jenny. Old Norse Images of Women. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Larrington, Carolyne. “Scandinavia.” The Feminist Companion to Mythology. Ed. Carolyne Larrington. London: Pandora, 1992. 137– 61.

Lindow, John. “Mythology and Mythography.” In Clover and Lindow, 21– 67.

Martin, John Stanley. Ragnarǫk. An Investigation into Old Norse Concepts of the Fate of the Gods. Melbourne Monographs in Germanic Studies, 3. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1972.

Meulengracht Sørensen, Preben. “Religious Old and New.” The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings. Ed. Peter Sawyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 202–224.

Orchard, Andy. Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend. London: Cassell, 1997.

Page, R.I. Norse Myths. London: British Museum Publications, 1990.

Simek, Rudolf. Dictionary of Northern Mythology. 1984. Tr. Angela Hall. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993.

Turville-Petre, E.O.G. Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964.

Studies of Eddic Poetry

Acker, Paul. Revising Oral Theory: Formulaic Composition in Old English and Old Icelandic Verse. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.

Dronke, Ursula. Myth and Fiction in Early Norse Lands. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1996.

Einarsson, Stefán. A History of Icelandic Literature. New York: American- Scandinavian Foundation, 1957.

Glendinning, Robert J. and Haraldur Bessason, eds. Edda: A Collection of Essays. University of Manitoba Icelandic Studies, 4. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1983.

Hallberg, Peter. Old Icelandic Poetry: Eddic Lay and Skaldic Verse. 1962. Tr. Paul Schach and Sonja Lindgrenson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975.

Harris, Joseph. “Eddie Poetry.” In Clover & Lindow, 68–156.

Kristjánsson, Jonas. Eddas and Sagas: Iceland’s Medieval Literature. Tr. Peter Foote. 2nd ed. Reykjavík: Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag, 1992.

Larrington, Carolyne. A Store of Common Sense: Gnomic Theme and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English Wisdom Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Russom, Geoffrey. Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.