Evergreen ash: ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature 9780813942261, 9780813942278, 9780813942285, 0813942268, 0813942276

"This book explores the role of apocalypse in Old Norse mythology and literature, relating it to the threat of ecol

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Evergreen ash: ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literature
 9780813942261, 9780813942278, 9780813942285, 0813942268, 0813942276

Table of contents :
Prologue: Ash --
Ecocriticism and Old Norse --
Remembering and dismembering a transcorporeal cosmos --
The nature of world in a world without nature: heimr, verold, jor? --
Tree-people and people-trees --
Trees, vines, and the golden age of settlement --
The asir and the anthropocene --
Reading Rangarok at the end of the world.

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