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ISBN13: | 9781843847021 |
ISBN10: | 1843847027 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 232 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Weight: | 434 g |
Language: | English |
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The Paganesque and The Tale of V?lsi
Series:
Studies in Old Norse Literature;
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Date of Publication: 22 October 2024
Number of Volumes: Print PDF
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Short description:
Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of V?lsi, via the concept of the "paganesque".
Long description:
Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of V?lsi, via the concept of the "paganesque".
A family of Norwegian pagans, stubbornly resisting the new Christian religion, worship a diabolically animated preserved horse penis, intoning verses as they pass it from hand to hand until King Olaf the Saint intervenes. This is the matter of the medieval Tale of V?lsi. Traditionally, it has been read as evidence of a pre-Christian fertility cult - or simply dismissed as an obscene trifle. This book takes a new approach by developing the concept of the "paganesque" - the air of a religious culture older than and inimical to Christianity. It shows how the Tale of V?lsi deploys a range of vernacular genres, from verbal dueling and mythological poetry to folk belief about milk-stealing witches and the reanimated dead, to create the flavor of paganism for a fourteenth-century Icelandic audience: an imagined paganism that has theological stakes as well as satirical bite. Throughout, the study challenges the notion that the horse penis is the key to understanding the narrative. Once the object is removed from the center of interpretation, the artistry and wit of the tale's "Paganesque" come fully into view.
A family of Norwegian pagans, stubbornly resisting the new Christian religion, worship a diabolically animated preserved horse penis, intoning verses as they pass it from hand to hand until King Olaf the Saint intervenes. This is the matter of the medieval Tale of V?lsi. Traditionally, it has been read as evidence of a pre-Christian fertility cult - or simply dismissed as an obscene trifle. This book takes a new approach by developing the concept of the "paganesque" - the air of a religious culture older than and inimical to Christianity. It shows how the Tale of V?lsi deploys a range of vernacular genres, from verbal dueling and mythological poetry to folk belief about milk-stealing witches and the reanimated dead, to create the flavor of paganism for a fourteenth-century Icelandic audience: an imagined paganism that has theological stakes as well as satirical bite. Throughout, the study challenges the notion that the horse penis is the key to understanding the narrative. Once the object is removed from the center of interpretation, the artistry and wit of the tale's "Paganesque" come fully into view.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introducing The Paganesque
2. Against Fertility
3. The Party Game
4. Folk Belief and Body Parts
5. The Interrupted Divination
6. The Idol and the Fetish
Coda
Appendix I: V?lsa ?áttr
Appendix II: Ásmundur flag?ag?fa
Works Cited
Index
Abbreviations
1. Introducing The Paganesque
2. Against Fertility
3. The Party Game
4. Folk Belief and Body Parts
5. The Interrupted Divination
6. The Idol and the Fetish
Coda
Appendix I: V?lsa ?áttr
Appendix II: Ásmundur flag?ag?fa
Works Cited
Index