Eyrbyggja Saga Archive
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Inn draugar: The Zombie in the Icelandic Sagas
Posted on December 22, 2012 | No CommentsIt is this humanity in a monster that helps to show why these draugar fascinate us so much. The “others” that exist outside the boundaries of society: the weird old ladies that people label as evil witches, the misshapen, the “freaks” that Tod Browning made famous are funhouse mirror images of ourselves. -
INTERVIEW: Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
Posted on December 13, 2012 | No CommentsAn interview with author Nancy Brown on her latest medieval offering: "Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths". -
Sir Walter Scott and Eyrbyggja Saga
Posted on August 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe influence of this interest in ancient Scandinavia on Scott's own work has also been traced and examined in great detail... -
Remnants of Revenants: The Role of the Dreaded Draugr in Medieval Iceland
Posted on December 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe Vikings brought the ancient Germanic literary tradition from Scandinavia to the rest of Europe.
