The Mythological Landscape of Sonatorrek: An Experiment in Contextualising Poetic Experience

Egill Skallagrimsson’s poem Sonatorrek, traditionally held to have been composed ca. 960 AD and thus perhaps one of the very few genuinely pre-Christian skaldic poems that have been preserved, treats the grief of a father who has lost his son to the sea and his reckoning with the divine powers who h...

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Main Author: Egeler, Matthias 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego “Societas Vistulana” 2018
In: Quaestiones medii aevi novae
Year: 2018, Volume: 23, Pages: 47-65
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