This wide-ranging collection moves from the rhythms of Old Saxon verse and the pronunciation of modern Norwegian to a fresh reading of Grendel’s mother in Beowulf.
One essay explores how a medieval poet used the familiar world of the Germanic drinking hall to tell the Christian story, while another asks what Wagner’s musical motifs might have in common with Sámi song.
Vox Germanica is an eclectic volume of essays of great variety, and scholars of medieval Germanic languages, linguistics, and literature will undoubtedly find many of the essays useful.
For readers interested in language, poetry and myth, the book offers a historical perspective on something we see every day as stories travel between languages and communities. Each new audience can hear something different in an old story, and each retelling can change what gets passed on.
This is a new copy, still in shrink-wrap.
