Table of Contents

Introduction
Prologue: Earliest Contacts: Medieval poetry and Old Norse myth
1: Antiquarians and Poets: seventeenth and eighteenth century discoveries of Old Norse myth
2: Preromantic Responses: Gray, Blake and the northern sublime
3: Parallel Romantics: the alternative Norse-influenced tradition
4: Paganism and Christianism: Old Norse myth and nineteenth century religious thought
Epilogue: New Images: Contemporary poetry and Old Norse myth

About the Author

Heather O'Donoghue is Vigfússon Rausing reader in Old Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Linacre College.

Reviews

although both specialists in Old Norse and scholars of post-medieval English poetry will learn much from this wide-ranging, sensitive, and readable study, it is readers who think that they are more interested in English poetry than in Norse myth who may find their preconceptions most fruitfully challenged.
*Carl Phelpstead, Review of English Studies*