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With a time lag of 300 to 900 years from the archaeological evidence, the textual material has until recently been ruled out as a usable source for any study of the pagan past. However, Hedeager argues that this is true regarding any study of a society’s short-term history, but it should not be the crucial requirement for defining the sources relevant for studying long-term structures of the longue durée, or their potential contributions to a theoretical understanding of cultural changes and transformation. In Iron Age Scandinavia we are dealing with persistent and slow-changing structures of worldviews and ideologies over a wavelength of nearly a millennium. Furthermore, iconography can often date the arrival of new mythical themes anchoring written narratives in a much older archaeological context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOld Norse myths are explored with particular attention to one of the central mythical narratives of the Old Norse canon, the mythic cycle of Odin, king of the Norse pantheon. In addition, contemporaneous historical sources from late Antiquity and the early European Middle Age - the narratives of Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, and Paul the Deacon in particular - will be explored. 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By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this book yields a variety of powerful and convincing readings. Contributors to the collection are both young scholars and senior figures in the discipline, and are of varying nationalities (American, British, Australian, Scandinavian, and Icelandic), thus ensuring a range of interpretations from different corners of the scholarly community. The new translations included here make available for the first time to English speaking students the intriguing methodologies that are currently developing in Scandinavia. 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This limited-edition set collects three of Dr. Crawford's Hackett Publishing books, \u003cem\u003eThe Poetic Edda\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eThe Saga of the Volsungs\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), and \u003cem\u003eTwo Sagas of Mythical Heroes\u003c\/em\u003e (2021) in a beautifully designed, hand-numbered, and hand-crafted slipcase box. Each book in the set features smyth-sewn hardcover bindings with new custom artwork for the front covers. \u003cem\u003eThe Poetic Edda\u003c\/em\u003e features a medallion of the wolf Fenrir, \u003cem\u003eThe Saga of the Volsungs\u003c\/em\u003e a medallion of the dragon\/serpent Fafnir, and \u003cem\u003eTwo Sagas of Mythical Heroes\u003c\/em\u003e a medallion of a bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach volume in the set begins with a phrase hand-written by Dr. Crawford that best exemplifies the text to follow or Dr. Crawford's favorite passage from the book. 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