The course aims to delineate a space for ideas about the body found in Old Norse literature and, in the context of contemporary analyses in body-related research, to search for other polarities than the body- soul dualism. The themes analysed in detail will be: somatic displays of emotions; change of form in the context of battle ecstasy and of magic; corporeality of revenants; physical aspects of Old Norse terms for "soul" and the human-animal relationship.