Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45871
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Sturluson , Snorri
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  • Title: Gender Instability: Trans-Gender and Gender-Shifting: (a) From Gulathing Law: On Seriously Insulting Speech, (c) From Loki’s Flyting (Lokasenna), (d) Loki and Svadilfari: Loki’s Adventure as a Mare
  • Source: The Viking Age: A Reader.  Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald.  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 138 - 143.
  • Description: The Prose Edda, from which (d) Loki and Svadilfari is taken, has been attributed to the author Snorri Sturluson.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Insults in Literature Law Loki, Norse God Sagas Transgendered Practices Vikings
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  • Geographic Area: Scandinavia
  • Century: 11- 12- 13
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  • Related Resources: (a) is trans. Laurence Marcellus Larson, The Earliest Norwegian Laws: Being the Gulathing Law and the Frostathing Law (Columbia University Press, 1935), p. 143. (c) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Loki’s Flyting (Lokasenna), in EddukvœðI (Eddic Poetry), Íslenzk fornrit (Reykjavík, 2014), vol. 1, pp. 410-14. (d) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from The Tricking of Gylfi (Gylfaginning), in Edda, ed. Anthony Faulkes (The Viking Society for Northern Research, 1988-99), pp. 34-35.
  • Author's Affiliation: Brock University [McDonald and Somerville- Retired from the English Department]
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487570477 (pbk); 9781487570491 (ePub); 9781487570507 (PDF)