Professor%20Heather%20O'Donoghue: List of publications
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Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga: Meanings of Time in Old Norse Literature
February 2021
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Re-presenting Icelandic saga narrative for Victorian readers
January 2020
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The Oxford Handbook to Victorian Medievalism
The Karlevi Stone
January 2020
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Navigating the Text: Textual Articulation and Division across Cultures
The Great Story of the North: William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung as national epic
December 2019
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Mythology and “Nation Building”: N.F.S. Grundtvig and His Contemporaries
The One that Got Away in Old Norse myth, Moby-Dick and the work of Hugh MacDiarmid
August 2019
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The Vikings Reimagined: Reception, Recovery, Engagement
William Morris
July 2019
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Gylfis Tauschung: Rezeptionsgeschichtliches Lexikon Zur Nordischen Mythologie Und Heldensage
Figura in Njáls saga: The Dorothea Coke Memorial Lecture 2018
March 2018
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Conference paper
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Saga-Book
From Heroic Lay to Victorian Novel: Old Norse Poetry about Brynhildr and Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native
October 2017
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Translating Early Medieval Poetry: Transformation, Reception, Interpretation
Poetry, Medieval
The Reception of Eddic Poetry
August 2016
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A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia
A Place in Time: Old Norse Myth and Contemporary Poetry in English and Scots
June 2016
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Studies in the Transmission and Reception of Old Norse Literature
English Poetry and Old Norse Myth
September 2014
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English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History traces the influence of Old Norse myth -- stories and poems about the familiar gods and goddesses of the pagan North, such as Odin, Thor, Baldr and Freyja -- on poetry in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Especial care is taken to determine the precise form in which these poets encountered the mythic material, so that the book traces a parallel history of the gradual dissemination of Old Norse mythic texts.
Very many major poets were inspired by Old Norse myth. Some, for instance the Anglo-Saxon poet of Beowulf, or much later, Sir Walter Scott, used Old Norse mythic references to lend dramatic colour and apparent authenticity to their presentation of a distant Northern past. Others, like Thomas Gray, or Matthew Arnold, adapted Old Norse mythological poems and stories in ways which both responded to and helped to form the literary tastes of their own times. Still others, such as William Blake, or David Jones, reworked and incorporated celebrated elements of Norse myth - valkyries weaving the fates of men, or the great World Tree Yggdrasill on which Odin sacrificed himself - as personal symbols in their own poetry. This book also considers less familiar literary figures, showing how a surprisingly large number of poets in English engaged in individual ways with Old Norse myth. English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History demonstrates how attitudes towards the pagan mythology of the north change over time, but reveals that poets have always recognized Old Norse myth as a vital part of the literary, political and historical legacy of the English-speaking world.
Historical and Archaeological Poetry of Recovery and Memory
January 2012
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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Old Wine in New Bottles: Tradition and Innovation in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy
January 2012
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Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy
"The Wife's Lament" and "Helreið Brynhildar": Different Responses to Similar Lives?
January 2011
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Stanzas of Friendship: Studies in Honour of Tatjana N. Jackson
Owed to Both sides: W.H. Auden’s Double Debt to the Literature of the North
January 2010
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Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
Heaney, Beowulf and the Medieval Literature of the North
January 2009
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Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
Miðgarðsormr
January 2009
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Archipelago
Seven entries
January 2009
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British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia
From Asgard to Valhalla The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths
September 2008
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From Asgard to Valhalla is the first book to show how and why the Norse myths have so powerfully resonated from era to era: from Viking-age stories of ice and fire to the epic poetry of Beowulf; and from Wagner's Ring to Marvel Comics' ...
Religion
Old Norse-Icelandic Literature A Short Introduction
April 2008
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Book
From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. An introduction to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
Literary Criticism
Skaldic verse and the poetics of saga narrative
January 2005
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Madness, Mythology and Mitteleuropa: the Old Norse background to Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum
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Medieval Legacies, Modern Lenses
Old Norse in the New World: the mythology of emigration in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
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From Iceland to the Americas: Medieval Icelandic Influences on North American Culture