Summary This volume presents thirteen original essays that explore how emotions are represented across a wide spectrum of Old Norse texts. Subjects range from love, sorrow, and humiliation to monstrous feelings, renowned lovers, representations of the mind, curiosity, desire, and many other forms of emotional experience. Reflecting the vibrant scholarly interest in medieval depictions of emotion, this volume brings together diverse methodological approaches and critical perspectives. The contributors examine emotive expression in Eddic and skaldic poetry, r mur, romances, hagiography, medical texts, and runic inscriptions, as well as in major prose genres such as the kings? sagas, sagas of Icelanders, contemporary sagas, and legendary sagas. With its wide generic range and diverse critical strategies, this volume significantly broadens the scope of emotion studies in Old Norse literature ? a field which was for a long time understudied but has now become a central topic within Old Norse studies. It will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval literature, history, philology, and the history of emotions, as well as to readers intrigued by how premodern texts register and interpret human affect. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables Emotion in Old Norse Literature: An Introduction Daniel S vborg and Brynja orgeirsd ttir Mikit fora ertu: Brynhildr and Monstrous Feelings in Old Norse Heroic Legend Carolyne Larrington The Sorrows of S?rli the Lover: On the Icelandic mans ngur and Some Norse-Gaelic Contacts A alhei ur Gu mundsd ttir Metaphors and Emotions in Fri j fs saga and in Fri j fs r mur Maria Cristina Lombardi The Life of the Mind in the Skaldic Corpus Russell Poole Love in the Eyes of Poets: Verse and Prose in the Poets? Sagas Alison Finlay ? eim var ek verst, er ek unna mest?: The Concept of Love in Old Norse Literature Sif R khar sd ttir ?I Sit Alone and Tell My Sorrow?: Emotion and the Generic Hybridity of the ?Post-Classical? I?slendingaso?gur Rebecca Merkelbach Humiliation and Situational Ethics: A Proverbial Motif in Some Sagas of Icelanders Eugenia Vorobeva Curiosity, Desire, and Ingenuity in jalar-Jo?ns saga Heidi St a An Emotional Entrep t in Northern Europe: Love on Runic Sticks in Medieval Bergen Bj rn Bandlien Emotion in Old Norse Medical Literature Brynja orgeirsd ttir Mixed Emotions: Social Anxiety, Feelings, and Royal Blood in Thirteenth-Century Iceland Torfi H. Tulinius ??hey Loved Each Other With Secret Love?: Old Norse Sources on Relations Between Ingigerd, the Wife of the Russian Prince Yaroslav the Wise, and the Norwegian King Ol fr Haraldsson Tatjana N. Jackson