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.
