Representaciones de la mujer en la literatura nórdica medieval: el caso de Áslaug Sigurðardóttir [PDF]
, 2021 This paper analyses the representation of the female poet Áslaug Sigurðardóttir in the Ragnars saga, as well as the representations of women contained in her own verses.
García López, Inés
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Goering, Nelson. 2023. Prosody in Medieval English and Norse. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiii + 375. ISBN 9780197267462. [PDF]
Book review of Goering, Nelson. 2023. Prosody in Medieval English and Norse. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiii + 375.
Males, Mikael
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Norse-Icelandic Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages - an electronic edition [PDF]
, 2001 This presentation aims to describe an international project to edit the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry and to outline some issues related to electronic aspects of the project, both in its organisation and in its publication. Prof.
Aleman, B.M. +11 more
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Histoire et philologie de la Scandinavie ancienne et médiévale [PDF]
, 2009 Programme de l’année 2007-2008 : Lecture et explication des sources poétiques de l’Óláfs saga ins helga (ou Histoire du roi saint Olaf) de Snorri ...
Dillmann, François-Xavier
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The Appeal and Reception of the Legend of Saint Eustace in Early Medieval England and Medieval Scandinavia [PDF]
, 2020 The Legend of Saint Eustace (BHL 2760) is an unusual saint’s life which was widely circulated in medieval Europe, but has received relatively little scholarly attention beyond its roots in folklore and the sources used in vernacular translations. This is
McIntosh, James
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Mythological Allusion in the Late Verse of Egill Skallagrímsson [PDF]
The essay examines Egill Skallagrímsson’s renunciation of his veneration of Óðinn, the god of war and poetry, in the poem Sonatorrek. References to this patron and to the whole corpus of early Scandinavian mythology almost entirely disappear from the ...
Sayers, William
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The politics of performance in Viking Age skaldic poetry [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis examines the political functions of the performance of skaldic poetry during the Viking Age. It aims to establish the vital role that skaldic verse plays in the establishment and maintenance of power, as well as the importance of skaldic ...
Ferreira, Annemari
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Craftsmen and Wordsmiths: An Investigation into the Links Between Material Crafting, Poetic Composition and Their Practitioners in Old Norse Literature [PDF]
, 2019 In his first verse, the precocious poet Egill Skallagrímsson declares ‘eigi mun þú finna betra þrevetran óðarsmið mér’ (‘you will not find a better poetry-smith of three years than me’). Such metaphors are highly conventional in the skaldic poetry of the
Grant, Thomas
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Viking Ships with Angular Stems: Did the Old Norse term beit refer to early sailing ships? [PDF]
, 2019 This article discusses a certain type of ship known from Scandinavian Viking Age and Merovingian Period iconography. This type of ship has a vertical stem and stern that meet the keel at right angles, sometimes with an extension filling the space under a
Heide, Eldar, Planke, Terje
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That Rune Will Unlock Time’s Labyrinth…: Old Norse Themes and Motifs in George Mackay Brown’s Poetry [PDF]
, 2019 George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), an Orcadian poet, author and dramatist, was undoubtedly one of the finest Scottish creative voices of the twentieth century. He was greatly influenced by Old Norse literature, and this is reflected in his writings in many
Ruseckienė, Rasa
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