Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Medieval Thought and Shapeshifting
- 1 Wundor wearð on wege‘a wonder happened on the way’: Shifting shapes and meanings in Old English Riddles
- 2 The Big Black Cats of Vatnsdalr and Other Trolls: Talking about shapeshifting in medieval Iceland
- 3 The Hoard Makes the Dragon: Fáfnir as a Shapeshifter
- 4 Eigi í mannligu eðli: Shape, Monstrosity and Berserkism in the Íslendingasögur
- 5 The Cursed and the Committed: A Study in Literary Representations of ‘Involuntary’ Shapeshifting in Early Medieval Irish and Old Norse Narrative Traditions
- 6 Unde sunt aues istae?: Notes on Bird-Shapeshifting, Bird Messengers, and Early Medieval Hagiography
- 7 Sin, Punishment, and Magic: Changing Form in Medieval Welsh Literature
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Medieval Thought and Shapeshifting
- 1 Wundor wearð on wege‘a wonder happened on the way’: Shifting shapes and meanings in Old English Riddles
- 2 The Big Black Cats of Vatnsdalr and Other Trolls: Talking about shapeshifting in medieval Iceland
- 3 The Hoard Makes the Dragon: Fáfnir as a Shapeshifter
- 4 Eigi í mannligu eðli: Shape, Monstrosity and Berserkism in the Íslendingasögur
- 5 The Cursed and the Committed: A Study in Literary Representations of ‘Involuntary’ Shapeshifting in Early Medieval Irish and Old Norse Narrative Traditions
- 6 Unde sunt aues istae?: Notes on Bird-Shapeshifting, Bird Messengers, and Early Medieval Hagiography
- 7 Sin, Punishment, and Magic: Changing Form in Medieval Welsh Literature
- Index
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- Shapeshifters in Medieval North Atlantic Literature , pp. 185 - 187Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2018