Old Norse Folklore: Tradition, Innovation, and Performance in Medieval Scandinavia belenus • Reveals the role the

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Old Norse Folklore: Tradition, Innovation, and Performance in Medieval Scandinavia belenus • Reveals the role theThe medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. Old Norse Folklore explores the complexities of this fascinating world in case studies and theoretical essays that connect orality and performance theory to memory studies, and myths relating to pre Christian Nordic religion to