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Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Ragnarok originated in Iceland. As the first full-length ecocritical study of Old Norse myth and literature, Evergreen Ash argues that Ragnarok is primarily a story of ecological collapse that reflects the anxieties of early Icelanders who were trying to make a home in a hostile environment.

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Evergreen Ash Ecology and Catastrophe in Old

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      Publisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia
      Publication Date: 2/28/2019 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813942278, 978-0813942278
      ISBN10: 0813942276

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      Book Synopsis
      Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Ragnarok originated in Iceland. As the first full-length ecocritical study of Old Norse myth and literature, Evergreen Ash argues that Ragnarok is primarily a story of ecological collapse that reflects the anxieties of early Icelanders who were trying to make a home in a hostile environment.

      Trade Review
      'Abram positively embraces anachronism, reading contemporary concerns into medieval works of literature to get something out of them that is useful to our contemporary concern with that present and future state of the world.' - The Times Literary Supplement, October 2019

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