Book Reviews 561 motif of animal-human transformation shifts in the several analogues, resulting from a rearrangement of the motifs of transformation, enchantment, and knightly agency. The title of the book under review, Medieval Romances Across European Borders, only hints at its contents, a study of the transmission, elaboration, modification, and interaction of story through various languages, cultures, and times. Noteworthy is the fact that several contributions are devoted to medieval

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... ce in Scandinavia, to offspring of French romance in Old Swedish, Old Icelandic, and Old Norse. The transmission of romance to the Scandinavian North is generally ignored in studies of the genre and the editor is to be congratulated for having made available to a broader audience research that originated in a small scholarly conference.