Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45903
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  • Title: Cross-Dressing: (a) Thor as a Bride, (b) How Aud Dealt with Her Humiliating Divorce
  • Source: The Viking Age: A Reader.  Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald.  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 143 - 153.
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  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Cross Dressing Divorce Sagas Thor, Norse God Vikings
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  • Geographic Area: Scandinavia
  • Century: 11- 12- 13
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  • Related Resources: (a) is trans. A.A. Somerville, Thrym’s Poem (Þrymskviða) in Eddukœði, ed. Jónas Kristijánsson and Vésteinn Ólason, Íslenzk fornrit (Reykjavík, 2014), vol. I pp. 422-47. (b) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Laxdœla saga, ed. Einar Ól. Sveinsson, Íslenzk fornrit V (Reykjavík, 1934), pp. 95-98.
  • 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)