Old Norse poetry in performance / edited by Brian McMahon and Annemari Ferreira.

Introduction / by Terry Gunnell -- Part I: The Social Dynamics of Performance. 1. Framing Old Norse Performance Contexts: The Wedding at Reykjahólar (1119) / Revisited by Stephen A. Mitchell -- Part II: Voice and Performance. 2. Revisiting Zumthorian Vocality in Old Norse Poetry Studies / by Inés García López -- 3. …með skarða skjöldu ok skotnar brynjur: The Distribution and Function of Aural Sense Impressions in Old Norse Poetry / by Simon Nygaard -- 4. Dramatic Implications of Echoed Speech in Skírnismál / by Harriet Soper -- Part III: Collocation and Quotation. 5. Eddic Poetry and the Uses of Anonymity / by John McKinnell -- 6. Accretive Quotation and the Performance of Stanzas in Fagrskinna / by Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen -- Part IV: Material Culture. 7. Old Norse Poetry in Visual Art: a Comparative Perspective with the Islamic World / by Rebeca Franco Valle -- 8: How the Hell Do You Read This? The Evolution of Eddic Orality through Manuscript Performance / by Frog -- Part V: Modern Approaches to Performing Old Norse Poetry. 9: Old Norse Poetry in Performance: Perils, Pitfalls and Possibilities / by Brian McMahon -- 10. Interview with Leif Stinnerbom -- 11. Interview with Einar Selvik -- 12. Beowulf, the Edda, and the Performance of Medieval Epic: Notes from the Workshop of a Reconstructed ‘Singer of Tales’ / by Benjamin Bagby -- 13: ‘ıð beſta eꝛ quæðeð fm̄ flutt’: Kveðnar Drápur og Kveðnar Rímur / by Pétur Húni Björnsson.

"This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. The contributors examine both eddic and skaldic poems and consider the surviving evidence for how they were originally recited or otherwise performed in medieval Scandinavia, Iceland and at royal courts across Europe. This study also engages with the challenge of reconstructing medieval performance styles and examines ways of applying the modern discipline of Performance Studies to the fragmentary corpus of Old Norse verse. The performance of verse by characters who appear in the Old Icelandic saga tradition is also considered, as is the cultural value associated not only with the poems themselves but with their various means of transmission and reception." -- Utgivarens hemsida.