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Title Old Norse literature and mythology; a symposium. Edited by Edgar C. Polome.

Imprint Austin, Published for the Dept. of Germanic Languages of the University of Texas at Austin by the University of Texas Press [1969]

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Description xii, 347 p. illus. 24 cm.
Note Papers written in honor of Professor Lee M. Hollander, five of which were first presented at the 6th Germanic languages symposium held at the University of Texas, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 1964.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents On translating from the Scandinavian, by E. Haugen.--Fact and fancy in the Vinland sagas, by E. Wahlgren.--Some observations on the influence of Tristrams saga ok Isondar on Old Icelandic literature, by P. Schach.--The heroic pattern: Old Germanic helmets, Beowulf, and Grettis saga, by A.M. Arent.--A contribution to the interpretation of skaldic poetry: tmesis, by K. Reichardt.--On reflections of Germanic legal terminology and situations in the Edda, by W.P. Lehmann.--Fertility of beast and soil in Old Norse literature, by E.O.G. Turvill-Petre.--Some comments on Voluspa, stanzas 17-18, by E.C. Polome.--Appendix A. Lee M. Hollander: a biographical sketch.--Appendix B. Lee M. Hollander: a chronological bibliography.
Subject Old Norse literature -- History and criticism.
Added Author Polome, Edgar C.
Hollander, Lee Milton, 1880-1972.
University of Texas at Austin. Department of Germanic Languages.
ISBN 0292783868

 
    
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