Opening Perspectives on Folklore and Old Norse Mythology [PDF]
, 2021 Peer ...
Ahola, Joonas, Frog, Mr.
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Snorri Sturluson qua Fulcrum : Perspectives on the Cultural Activity of Myth, Mythological Poetry and Narrative in Medieval Iceland [PDF]
, 2011 The present paper constructs an overview of Snorri Sturluson’s impact, through Edda, on the cultural activity of mythology in vernacular poetries and narration.
Frog, Etunimetön
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Conversion narrative and Christian identity: ‘How Christianity came to Iceland’ [PDF]
, 2017 Conversion, in the Middle Ages as today, has a range of different meanings: as Muldoon has commented, it encompasses a ‘spectrum’ of experiences, not ...
Gronlie, Sian
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Forgotten Laxdæla poetry : a study and an edition of Tyrfingur Finnsson's Vísur uppá Laxdæla sögu [PDF]
, 2017 The paper discusses the metre and the diction of a previously unpublished small poem about characters of Laxdæla saga, composed in 18th century. The stanzas are ostensibly in skaldic dróttkvætt; the analysis shows it to be an imitation of the classical ...
Sverdlov, Ilya, Vanherpen, Sofie
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Hermes and Prometheus in Scandinavia – or Thor and Thjalfi in Greece: Reconstructing an Indo-European aetiological myth about a prehistoric steppe ritual [PDF]
The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, a case will be made for the Old Norse myth of Thjalfi’s laming of Thor’s goat (chiefly attested in Gylfaginning 44) as a Scandinavian counterpart to two Ancient Greek myths, the myth of Hermes’s theft of Apollo ...
Riccardo Ginevra
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Contradictory cosmology in Old Norse myth and religion â but still a system? [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents a new understanding of the cosmology of pre-Christian Scandinavian myth. The sources appear to give contradictory information; for example, the Ãsir are located in different places: at the centre of the world, in the west, in the east,
Heide, Eldar
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Rituales mágicos en la religión nórdica precristiana: el seiðr en la Saga de Gísli Súrsson [PDF]
Con el presente artículo perseguimos un doble objetivo. Por una parte analizaremos las características de la magia seiðr y de sus practicantes desde el punto de vista de su importancia en el entramado social y mitológico de la cultura nórdica (islandesa)
Manrique Antón, Teodoro
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The sites of synthesis of the principal thylakoid membrane polypeptides in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. [PDF]
J Cell Biol, 1977 Chua NH, Gillham NW.
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Helte og kujoner til jættegilder [PDF]
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to explore the relationship between Old Norse feasts and gender. Following Michael Dietler’s claim that examinations of gender offer insights into the practices of feasts of a given culture and vice versa, I ...
Emma C. Sørlie Jørgensen
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Sexualidade e divindade na mitologia nórdica [PDF]
, 2019 UID/HIS/00749/2019How did the old Norse peoples see their gods? How did they conceive of them and how did they define a deity? The answers to these questions may not be easy, given the limitations of the existing sources, but they may perhaps be revealed
Pires, Hélio
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