Abriendo las puertas de un mundo inexplorado: las primeras traducciones de la poesía escáldica en español [PDF]
This paper contributes to a growing body of research investigating the role of translations in the post-medieval reception of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. In this case study, we analyse Enrique Bernárdez’s Spanish translation of the skaldic verse in
Porter, Edel
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Beginning from the end : Strategies of composition in lyrical improvisation with end rhyme [PDF]
The target of this paper is to analyze the structural and rhetorical principles that seem to be emblematic of extempore composition in all three of these rhymed forms of oral poetry.1 The analysis focuses on the methods that improvisers employ in the ...
Sykari, Venla
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Rhyme in Alliterative Oral Poetry : A Look at Old English, Old Norse, and Finno-Karelian Traditions [PDF]
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Frog, Mr.
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Prototypes and structures in eddic poetry [PDF]
Seiichi Suzuki, The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry: Common Germanic Inheritance and North Germanic Innovation (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Band 86). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014.
Árnason, Kristján
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Is literary language a development of ordinary language? [PDF]
Contemporary literary linguistics is guided by the 'Development Hypothesis' which says that literary language is formed and regulated by developing only the elements, rules and constraints of ordinary language.
Fabb, Nigel
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Word upon a word : parallelism, meaning, and emergent structure in Kalevala-meter poetry [PDF]
This essay treats parallelism as a means for articulating and communicating meaning in performance. Rather than a merely stylistic and structural marker, parallelism is discussed as an expressive and cognitive strategy for the elaboration of notions and ...
Tarkka, Lotte
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Skule jarl, Snorre og den historiske bakgrunnen åt "Fagrskinna" [PDF]
I studiet av norrøn sogelitteratur hev det fest seg ei meining um at berre islendingar kann ha skrive kongesogor med eit fullt framvakse prosimetrum, d.e. med mange og til dels lange skaldesitat ispedde prosaen.
Klaus Johan Myrvoll
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Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry [PDF]
Although alliterative poetry—a medieval Germanic meter based on similar-sounding initial stressed syllables—first flourished in Old English and Old Norse literature, a resurgence of the meter has appeared within the twentieth century.
Dennis Wise
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Jómsvíkinga Sǫgur and Jómsvíkinga Drápur: texts, contexts and intertexts [PDF]
Using theories of intertextuality the paper explores the implications of the complex transmission of Jómsvíkinga saga, with its multiple manuscripts, versions and cross-references in other texts.
Jesch, Judith
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