A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.

Introduction - Massimiliano Bampi and Sif Rikhardsdottir
Genre - Massimiliano Bampi
Hybridity - Sif Rikhardsdottir
Terminology - Lukas Rösli
Form - Mikael Males
Orality, Textuality and Performance - Judy Quinn
Manuscripts and Codicology - Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
The Body Politic - Hans Jacob Orning
Geography - Dale Kedwards
Time and Space - Torfi H. Tulinius
Memory - Pernille Hermann
The Human Condition - Stefanie Gropper
God(s) - Carolyne Larrington
Wisdom - Brittany Schorn
Skaldic poetry - Case study: The Poetry of Torf-Einarr Rognvaldsson of Orkney - Erin Goeres
Eddic poetry - Case study: Sólarljóð - Carolyne Larrington
Þættir - Case study: Stjörnu-Odda draumr - Elizabeth Ashman Rowe
Íslendingasogur - Case study: Vatnsdæla saga - Russell Poole
Byskupasögur and heilagra manna sögur - Case study - Kevin J. Wanner
Romance - Case Study - Jürg Glauser
Annotated Taxonomy of Genres

Massimiliano Bampi, Carolyne Larrington, Sif Rikhardsdottir