Table of Contents:
  • True stories and other lies / John D. Niles
  • Theories of history in traditional plots / Craig R. Davis
  • Stranded narrative: myth, metaphor, and the metrical charm / Stephen O. Glosecki
  • Truth and its consequences: why Carolingianists don't speak of myth / Geoffrey Koziol
  • Ritual and technology in the Iron Age: an initiation scene on Gundestrup Cauldron / Michael J. Enright
  • Hearing and hunting in medieval Celtic tradition / Joseph Falaky Nagy
  • Homo necans borealis: fatherhood and sacrifice in Sonatorrek / Joseph Harris
  • The lay of the land in Skaldic praise poetry / Roberta Frank
  • Manipulating waterfalls: mythic places in Beowulf and Grettissaga, Lawrence and Purnell / Marijane Osborn
  • At the center of Beowulf / Geoffrey Russom
  • God at the borders: northern myth and Anglo-Saxon heroic story / John M. Hill
  • Beast men: Eofor and Wulf and the mythic significance of names in Beowulf / Gale R. Owen-Crocker
  • Children of darkness: Arminius/Siegfried in Germany / Christina Lee
  • Imagined cathedrals: retelling myth in the twentieth century / Tom Shippey.