Old Norse folklore : tradition, innovation, and performance in medieval Scandinavia / Stephen A. Mitchell.

OLD NORSE FOLKLORE
Contents
List of Illustrations
Series Editors' Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Old Norse Folklore: An Orientation
PART I: ORALITY AND PERFORMANCE
1. Orality, Oral Theory, and Memory Studies
2. Continuity: Folklore's Problem Child?
3. Performance and Norse Poetry: The Hydromel of Praise and the Effluvia of Scorn
4. Old Norse Riddles and Other Verbal Contests in Performance
PART II: MYTHS AND MEMORY
5. Skírnir's Other Journey: The Riddle of Gleipnir
6. The Goddess Gná
7. Óðinn, Charms, and Necromancy: Hávamál 157 in Its Nordic and European Contexts
8. Memory, Mediality, and the "Performative Turn": Recontextualizing Remembering in Medieval Scandinavia
9. Memory and Places That Matter: The Case of Samsø
10. The Mythologized Past: Memory in Medieval and Early Modern Gotland
PART III: TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS
11. Heroic Legend and Onomastics: Hálfs saga, Das Hildebrandslied and the Listerby Stones
12. Courts, Consorts, and the Transformation of Medieval Scandinavian Literature
13. On the Old Swedish Trollmöte or Mik mötte en gamul kerling
Works Cited
Index.