Gardens of the Old Gods: Ecocriticism of Yggdrasil in the Eddas

dc.contributor.advisor	Joan Peters	en
dc.contributor.author	Renger, James	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-04-08T18:57:14Z	en
dc.date.available	2014-04-08T18:57:14Z	en
dc.date.issued	2014-04-08	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/118617	en
dc.description.abstract	The Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda serve as the primary texts from which we draw our modern understanding of ancient Norse mythology. Central in these myths is the role of nature, which is depicted in a ways that are closely associated with contemporary understandings of the world in which we live, and there is no better demonstration in of the ecological concepts in these tales then Ygdrasil. By understanding the ecological connections in ancient Norse mythology through the Ygdrasil imagery, it is possible to make the eco-critical analysis of the mythology while shedding light on the very real contemporary environmental threats to the basis of one of the central images of their mythology.	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.rights	All rights reserved to author and California State University Channel Islands	en
dc.subject	Norse mythology	en
dc.subject	Old Norse literature	en
dc.subject	Nature in literature	en
dc.subject	Eddas	en
dc.subject	Yggdrasil	en
dc.subject	Iceland civilization	en
dc.subject	Ecocriticism	en
dc.subject	English Capstone Project	en
dc.subject	ENGL 499	en
dc.title	Gardens of the Old Gods: Ecocriticism of Yggdrasil in the Eddas	en
dc.type	Other	en