The threatening wave: Norse poetry and the Scottish Isles
(2015)
Book Chapter
Jesch, J. (2015). The threatening wave: Norse poetry and the Scottish Isles. In J. H. Barrett, & S. Gibbon (Eds.), Maritime societies of the Viking and Medieval world (320-332). Maney Publishing
The poetry discussed in this paper presents a range of responses to sailing around the northern parts of the British Isles, by poets more or less familiar with these routes but also with Norway, Iceland and sea-ways much further afield. These poets u... Read More about The threatening wave: Norse poetry and the Scottish Isles.