Heather O'Donoghue is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse at University of Oxford, UK. Her publications include Old Norse Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction (2004), English Poetry and Old Norse (2014), Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths (2nd Edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). She has also broadcast with the BBC on the topic of the Norse Gods.
Introduction Part One: The Storyworld 1. The Setting 2. The Human
Characters 3. The Monsters Part Two: Poet, Narrator and Scop 4. A Christian
Poet 5. An Old Norse Scholar 6. The Narrator 7. The Scop Part Three:
Post-Medieval Meanings 8. Earliest Audiences 9. Early Modern Audiences 10.
Translations 11. Contemporary Meanings Further Reading Index
