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'Shadow' and paradoxes of darkness in Old English and Old Norse poetic language [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis confronts, explores, and attempts to meaningfully interpret a surprising nexus of stimulating cruces and paradoxes in Old English poetry and prose and Old Norse skaldic and Eddic poetry.
Missuno, Filip
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Formal interactions in poetic meter

, 2009
I show how the theory of Fabb & Halle (2008) accounts for Icelandic dróttkvætt. This theoretical framework enables us to show that distinct forms-such as rhyme and alliteration - within a meter can either co-occur without being inter-related, or that one
Fabb, Nigel
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The many virtues of the strange Type Eε. Metre, Semantics and intertextuality in dróttkvætt

Filologia Germanica
The pattern which Eduard Sievers defined as “Eε” is the only line-type in dróttkvætt to have a trisyllabic word in the final metrical positions 4-6, thus deviating from the otherwise ubiquitous disyllabic closing (positions 5-6).
BIANCA PATRIA
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The earliest Old Norse metrics

Filologia Germanica
This article explores Old Norse metrical developments in the ninth century, focusing on the only securely datable evidence we have: the Rök stanza and Bragi’s poetry.
MIKAEL MALES
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Addenda: One Middle English Manuscript and Four Editions of Medieval Works Known to J. R. R. Tolkien and What They Reveal

, 2021
This article proposes the addition of four items to “Section A” of Oronzo Cilli’s Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist (2019) and the inclusion of complementary information to two other entries after demonstrating J. R. R.
Cossio, Andoni
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samstöfur seinar eda skjótar : ein etterrøknad av trykk- og kvantitetstilhøve i skaldeversemålet dróttkvætt [PDF]

, 2009
Det norrøne skaldeversemålet dróttkvætt er sermerkt ved at det er både aksentuerande og kvantiterande. Det tyder at det er eit samspel millom trykk og kvantitet i uppbyggjingi av verset.
Myrvoll, Klaus Johan
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Reconstructing an oral tradition: problems in the comparative metrical analysis of Old English, Old Saxon and Old Norse alliterative verse [PDF]

, 2003
textThe focus of this dissertation is the refinement of comparative metrical analysis, i.e. the comparison of related poetic forms with the goal to reconstruct the form of their common origin.
Simms, Douglas Peter Allen
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Egill, Snorri and the Story of a Hiatus

Scripta Islandica
This article addresses the question of the authorship of a couple of stanzas (lausa­vísur 28 and 29) attributed to Egill Skalla-Grímsson in the eponymous saga (ÍF 2: 163–165).
Bianca Patria
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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 ...
Vanherpen, Sofie, Sverdlov, Ilya, Vanherpen, SofieCA20LW060019990001478020003857130000-0002-9062-3986FA8700D4-F0ED-11E1-A9DE-61C894A0A6B4   +2 more
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The People, the Bishop and the Beast: Remediation and Reconciliation in Einarr Gilsson's Selkolluvísur

, 2018
This article takes a look at how Icelandic folklore was mediated in Old Norse literature through a case study of Einarr Gilsson’s mid-fourteenth-century dróttkvætt poem Selkolluvísur.
Mart Kuldkepp, Kuldkepp, M
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