{"product_id":"transformation-and-identity-in-old-adzule-kreager-9781843848059","title":"Transformation and Identity in Old Norse Literature: The Human and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eInvestigates how Old Norse myth, saga, and poetic traditions imagine human identity through encounters with animals, materials, and environments.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat happens to the category of the \"human\" in a world where bodies shift shape, objects fuse with living beings, and identities slip between species? This book explores how thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Icelandic texts confront this question, treating transformation not just as a narrative device, but as a way of thinking about what people are and how they inhabit the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the fragmented and reassembled bodies in Snorra Edda to the intricate play between humans and things in skaldic verse and eddic riddles; from mind-altering acts of consumption in the Sigurðr-cycle to the sequence of limb-loss, prosthetic substitution, and reattachment in Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana - these works reveal a culture keenly attuned to bodily contingency and material entanglement. Tracing episodes and images of change across the corpus, including the wider lexicon of shapeshifting, the author presents a vision of medieval Icelandic thought creatively alive to the instability of human identity in its running negotiation with the nonhuman world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adèle Kreager\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1843848058\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781843848059\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell \u0026amp; Brewer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Adèle Kreager","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48623571075327,"sku":"9781843848059","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f7684c5-b280-44b5-af7d-740392a77aca.jpg?v=1780433331","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transformation-and-identity-in-old-adzule-kreager-9781843848059","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}