Beyond the Piraeus Lion

East Norse philology - the study of Old Danish, Old Swedish, and Old Gutnish - continues to attract scholarly attention from around the world. Beyond the Piraeus Lion comprises fourteen articles on a vast number of topics by researchers from Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, and the USA. They are based on a selection of the papers given at the Second International Conference for East Norse Philology held at Ca' Foscari University of Venice in November 2015. The volume covers subjects ranging from codicology and material philology to text transmission and reception, from women's literacy in medieval Sweden to studies of Old Danish lexicon, and from Bible translations to Old Swedish poetics. In all, there are five sections in the volume - Palaeography, Codicology, and Editing; Manuscript Studies; Vocabulary and Style; Literature and Writing; Bibles and Translations - that all demonstrate the breadth and vitality of East Norse philology.

The book is the second volume published by Selskab for Østnordisk Filologi · Sällskap för östnordisk filologi, established in Uppsala in 2013.