Death, Human Sacrifice and Rebirth : an Iconographical Interpretation of Viking Runestone of Hammar I [PDF]
The present article still interprets an iconographic source without detailed academic studies, the Viking runestone of Hammar I, originary of the island of Gotland (Sweden).
Langer, Johnni
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Morte, Sacrifício Humano e Renascimento : uma interpretação Iconográfica da Runestone Viking de Hammar I [PDF]
O presente artigo interpreta uma fonte iconográfica ainda sem estudos acadêmicos detalhados, a runestone Viking de Hammar I, originária da ilha de Gotland (Suécia).
Langer, Johnni
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The Emergence and Transformation of Medieval Cumbria [PDF]
This is the accepted manuscript. The final version's available from Edinburgh University Press at http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/shr.2014.0216. There has long been uncertainty about the relationship between the polities known as Strathclyde
Edmonds, Fiona
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Otherworldly Beings in the Pre-Christian North: Tribal, Chiefdom, and Archaic Religion and the Use of Cultural Evolutionary Theory [PDF]
The interplay between societal and cultural change consists of a host of different factors. Religious conceptions are just one and are this article’s focus.
Nygaard, Simon
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Changing style and changing meaning: Icelandic historiography and the medieval redactions of Heiðreks saga [PDF]
Sagas appeared on Scandinavian scholars' horizons around the seventeenth century, when their narratives were accepted as reasonably accurate accounts on past events.
Hall, Alaric
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The Bearded Bride: A Critical Edition of Þrymlur. 2020. Edited and translated by Lee Colwill and Haukur Þorgeirsson. Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London. xli + 58 pages. ISBN: 978-0-903521-98-7. [PDF]
Book review of The Bearded Bride: A Critical Edition of ...
Andrew McGillivray
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Personal Religion among the Ancient Scandinavians and the Fulltrúi-Concept [PDF]
The question of personal religion among the ancient Scandinavians has centered around the concept of having a deity as one’s fulltrúi ‘trustworthy friend,’ ástvinr ‘close friend,’ or vinr ‘friend.’ Most scholars of the twentieth century regarded the ...
Hultgård, Anders
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Creating a Norm for the Vernacular [PDF]
The article deals with the birth of a linguistic norm in Iceland and Italy. The discussion focuses on four works, which lay the foundations for the discussion of grammar and poetics in their respective vernaculars, namely Dante Alighieri’s De vulgari ...
Tarsi, Matteo
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The whirling wheel: the male construction of empowered female identities in Old Norse myth and legend [PDF]
This thesis examines the body of medieval literature associated with Old Norse myth and legend. Though this is a diffuse corpus produced over a long span of time and from a wide geographical area, it is possible to establish connections between texts and
VARLEY, DAVID,HUGH
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Norse "Loki" as Praxonym [PDF]
The still debated Old Norse theonym Loki is projected against the wide semantic field of the ON verb lúka "to close", not, as current scholarship would have it, as relevant to Ragnar?k and the closing down of the divine world but in its judicial ...
Sayers, William
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