The Paganesque and the Tale of Vǫlsi by Kaplan, Merrill

The Paganesque and the Tale of Vǫlsi

Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of Vǫlsi, via...
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Author: Merrill Kaplan
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The Paganesque and the Tale of Vǫlsi by Kaplan, Merrill

The Paganesque and the Tale of Vǫlsi

$340.70

The Paganesque and the Tale of Vǫlsi

$340.70
Author: Merrill Kaplan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of Vǫlsi, via the concept of the "paganesque".

A family of Norwegian pagans, stubbornly resisting the new Christian religion, worship a diabolically animated preserved horse penis, intoning verses as they pass it from hand to hand until King Olaf the Saint intervenes. This is the matter of the medieval Tale of Vǫlsi. Traditionally, it has been read as evidence of a pre-Christian fertility cult - or simply dismissed as an obscene trifle. This book takes a new approach by developing the concept of the "paganesque" - the air of a religious culture older than and inimical to Christianity. It shows how the Tale of Vǫlsi deploys a range of vernacular genres, from verbal dueling and mythological poetry to folk belief about milk-stealing witches and the reanimated dead, to create the flavor of paganism for a fourteenth-century Icelandic audience: an imagined paganism that has theological stakes as well as satirical bite. Throughout, the study challenges the notion that the horse penis is the key to understanding the narrative. Once the object is removed from the center of interpretation, the artistry and wit of the tale's "Paganesque" come fully into view.

Author: Merrill Kaplan
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781843847021

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