The Elder Edda

[Helga]

Actually, I have some very strong opinions about Gerðr, and how she is characterised in the mythology - I've just devoted several thousand words of thesis to explaining how she can be seen to emerge from this poem as a potentially powerful figure.

have you read the poem Blóðhófnir by an Icelandic poet Gerður Kristný? It is very good and has been translated to English, though I know Icelandic is not a problem for you and it looses a lot in the translation because she plays with words that mean both body and earth in icelandic, like 'svörð'. She looks at this from Gerður's point of view, it's not accurate to skírnismál in every single way but it's very good and her point is that Gerður gets herself together in the end and is stronger than Freyr.

[Lokasenna]

have you read the poem Blóðhófnir by an Icelandic poet Gerður Kristný? It is very good and has been translated to English, though I know Icelandic is not a problem for you and it looses a lot in the translation because she plays with words that mean both body and earth in icelandic, like 'svörð'. She looks at this from Gerður's point of view, it's not accurate to skírnismál in every single way but it's very good and her point is that Gerður gets herself together in the end and is stronger than Freyr.

No, I haven't - but I'm going to! That sounds really interesting, and I'm always on the look out new and interesting post-medieval medievalist writers.