Clunies Ross, Margaret. Self-description in Egil’s Poetry

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  • Author: Clunies Ross, Margaret
  • Title: Self-description in Egil's Poetry
  • Published in: Egil, The Viking Poet: New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'
  • Editors: De Looze, Laurence. Jón Karl Helgason. Poole, Russell. Torfi H. Tulinius
  • Place, Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
  • Year: 2015
  • Pages: 75-91
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  • Reference: "Self-description in Egil's Poetry." Egil, The Viking Poet: New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga' , pp. 75-91. Eds. Laurence De Looze, Jón Karl Helgason, Russell Poole, Torfi H. Tulinius. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
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The poetic content of 'Egils saga' differs from other skaldsagas when it comes to three fundamental aspects: 1) love is not a central theme; 2) Egill's relation to kings is problematic, and the verses attributed to him are absent from the king's sagas; 3) elements of physical self-description are more prominent. Margaret Clunies-Ross focuses here on this last point, and shows how the lausavísur and the stanzas of Arinbjarnarkviða revolving around Höfuðlausn make use of the poetic description of the head and its external organs to define Egill's self-image and poetic activity. Physical self-descriptions and references to the act of poetic composition are indeed interrelated in Egill's œuvre. This suggests that Egill's physical appearance and condition are to be understood as the manifestation of mental states that are traditionally associated with poetic activity in Old Norse literature.

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