Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry

By Thomas Birkett

Book Overview

Presenting five linked case studies of runes in poetry, this study is the first to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The author views these representations through the paradigm of scriptural reconstruction and the validation of contemporary literary, historical and religious sensibil

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367880873
• ISBN13: 9780367880873
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"