Skaldsagas: Text, Vocation, and Desire in the Icelandic Sagas of Poets

Four renowned sagas about Icelandic poets (or skalds) - Bjarnar Saga , Gunnlaugs Saga , Hallfredar Saga , and Korm ks Saga - provide the focus for this book. Discussion centers on the verses included in these sagas; the special characteristics of skalds; medieval and modern interpretations of the sagas; their affiliation with other Scandinavian and European literature; and their place in evolving social constructions of gender and love relationships. The constituent chapters combine to form an integral monograph, with introduction, bibliography and index.