The Cold Counsel - The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth (Hardcover)

As its title suggests, Cold Counsel: The Women of Old Norse Literature and Myth is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. Testifying to the rich relation between Icelandic culture and literature, Cold Counsel draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography, and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.