Egil, the Viking Poet

Laurence de Looze is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Western Ontario. JÓn Karl Helgason is a professor in the Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland.Russell Poole is a professor emeritus of the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario and the managing editor of the journal Viking and Medieval Scandinavia.Torfi H. Tulinius is a professor in the Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland.

• 1. Introduction: Egil, The Viking Poet: New Approaches to Egil’s Saga (Russell Poole)COMPOSITION2. The Construction of Egil’s Saga (Torfi H. Tulinius)3. Ars metrica and the Composition of Egil’s Saga (GuÐrÚn Nordal)IDENTITY4. The Concept of the Self in Egil’s Saga: A Ricoeurean Approach (Laurence de Looze)5. Self-description in Egil’s Poetry (Margaret Clunies Ross)EMOTIONS AND AFFILIATIONS6. Emotions and Moral Issues in a Dysfunctional Saga Family (Ármann Jakobsson)7. Elegy and Old Age in Egil’s Saga (Alison Finlay)8. *Konutorrek: A Husband’s Lament (Oren Falk)9. Facebook for Vikings: Social Network Analysis and Egil’s Saga (Timothy R. Tangherlini)RECEPTION10. Egil Strikes Again: Textual Variation and the Seventeenth-Century Reworkings of Egil’s Saga (Svanhildur ÓskarsdÓttir)11. Bloody Runes: The Transgressive Poetics of Egil’s Saga (JÓn Karl Helgason)12. A Selected Bibliography from the Online Annotated Bibliography of Egil’s Saga (ÁlfdÍs ÞorleifsdÓttir, Katelin Parsons, and Jane Appleton)

‘This engaging addition to the Toronto series, begun in 2005, creates new lines of inquiry regarding on of the most-read and well-studied Icelandic works.’- J. Sundquist (Choice Magazine vol 54:02:2016) ‘Egil, the Viking Poet is a scrupulously edited and cohesive volume that ought to be as warmly received by those who have long studied Egils saga Skallagrimssonar and the medieval Icelandic sagas, as by students and others newly interested in this rich body of medieval vernacular narrative.’- Emily Lethbridge (Journal of English and Germanic Philology vol 116:04:2017) ‘I’ve no doubt that it will become essential reading for those with an interest in the Sagas of Icelanders and in Viking and Old Norse Studies, and it provides an exemplary model for future text-focused collections to follow.’- Tom Birkett (Saga-Book: Periodical of Viking Society vol 41:2017)