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Grendel’s Mere, Beowulf’s Dive, and the Visio Sancti Pauli
Revista Alicantina de Estudios InglesesAccording to Hrothgar’s account of Grendel’s mere, every night one can see there fȳr on flōde, a phrase often translated as ‘fire on the water’. This fire, which the king describes as a nīðwundor (a dreadful wonder), has traditionally been seen by ...
Rafael Pascual
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 34, Issue 40, October 1, 2024.Study of the dynamic processes that occur when the magnetic nanoparticles are exposed to an AC magnetic field in different scenarios: in colloids, in vitro (within intracellular vesicles) and simulations. Aligned structures parallel to the field when the magnetic field is on are observed and a fast disassembly of such structures occurs upon field ...
Yilian Fernández‐Afonso +11 more
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Uma ponte teórica entre o passado e o futuro do livro
Rumores, 2015 Resenha do livro BREDEHOFT, Thomas A. The visible text: textual production and reproduction from Beowulf to Maus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
André Carlos Moraes
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Benchmarking Raspberry Pi 2 Beowulf Cluster
, 2018 This paper presents a performance benchmarking of a Raspberry Pi 2 Beowulf cluster. Parallel computing systems with high performance parallel processing capabilities has become a popular standard for addressing not only scientific but also commercial ...
Dimitrios Papakyriakou +2 more
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Threatening as a sociocultural–conceptual communicative act
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 491-502, September 2024.Abstract The present article revisits threatening discourses from the perspectives of anthropological linguistics, Cultural Linguistics, speech act theory and pragmatics. On the basis of linguistic data from 11th‐century Britain (Old English), 14th‐century Norway (Old Norse), 19th‐century Ireland (Early Modern Irish English and Modern Irish), 20th ...
Arne Peters
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Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 75-96, March 2024.Abstract Since 2001, beetles have killed two‐thirds of the pine trees in British Columbia, Canada, decimating the predominant commercial tree species in one of the world's largest timber economies. Attempts to construct and circulate computer models of the infestation and its aftermaths, however, have obscured destabilizing changes across state ...
Tom Özden‐Schilling
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Rocznik SkrzatuskiThe article is an excerpt from Rev. Jakub Sitarz’s master’s thesis devoted to the question of whether it is possible to find Christological motifs in Tolkien’s Legendarium without overinterpretation. The abstract section of the thesis using the method of
Jakub Sitarz
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A Contemporary Voice Revisits the Past: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2007 Heaney’s controversial translation of Beowulf shows characteristics that make it look like an original work: in particular, the presence of Hiberno-English words and some unexpected structural features such as the use of italics, notes and running titles.
Silvia Geremia
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