Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society. Edited by Margaret Clunies Ross. Viborg: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2003. Pp. 312. DKK 260.

Conference papers presented at the Eleventh International Saga Conference on Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society, held at the University of Sydney, 2–7 July 2000, were published in a proceedings volume under the same title, edited by Geraldine Barnes and Margaret Clunies Ross (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney, 2000). The essays collected in the present volume include ten of those essays, in addition to the plenary addresses by John Lindow and Vésteinn Ólason (not included in the proceedings volume), all of which have here been revised and elaborated, as well as a new essay by the editor, based on a previously unpublished research lecture. A primary strength of this new volume lies in the broad range of methodologies presented, especially in terms of approaches that make use of interdisciplinary methods and combinations of methods that have until recently not been integral to the scholarly tradition in the field. Four such broadly defined methods structure the essays under four rubrics.

Jerold C. Frakes
University of Southern California