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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. XLV+1096 pp.
Kristján Árnason
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Metrical Positions and their Linguistic Realisations in Old Germanic Metres: A Typological Overview [PDF]
This paper provides a typological account of Old Germanic metre by investigating its parametric variations that largely determine the metrical identities of the Old English Beowulf, the Old Saxon Heliand, and Old Norse eddic poetry (composed in ...
Seiichi Suzuki
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Eddic Poetry as World Literature [PDF]
Professor Sophus Bugge is internationally probably still the most famous Norwegian scholar in the humanities of any period - and that more than a century after his death in 1907.
Joseph Harris
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Mitochondrial ATPase activity and membrane fluidity changes in rat liver in response to intoxication with buckthorn (Karwinskia humboldtiana). [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Karwinskia humboldtiana (Kh) is a poisonous plant of the rhamnacea family. To elucidate some of the subcellular effects of Kh toxicity, membrane fluidity and ATPase activities as hydrolytic and as proton-pumping activity were assessed in rat ...
Cid-Hernández M +6 more
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Speaking Names in the Eddic Skírnismál [PDF]
The paper seeks to explore the internal form of the central characters’ names in the Eddic Skírnir’s Journey. Proper names mentioned in the song are regarded as relevant markers of the plot that echoes the fertility myth.
Tatyana V. Toporova
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John McKinnell. Essays on Eddic Poetry.
Scott A. Mellor
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Hear No Sievers, See No Sievers: Metrics and the Eddic Commentary Tradition
This article explores a gradual shift towards metrical and linguistic imprecision in the four major commentaries on the Old Norse Eddic poems produced from the 1930s to today.
Mikael Males
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This paper is the second in a three-part series on the distinctive type of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter, argued to have emerged through the metricalization of uses of rhyme within a short line found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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This paper is the first in a three-part series or tryptic that argues for the Old Germanic origins of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter. This meter requires rhymes on the stressed syllables of two words within a six-position line, irrespective of ...
Frog
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Wulf and Eadwacer, eddic verse, and aural aesthetics
This study reexamines the case for Old Norse influence on the Old English poem Wulf and Eadwacer by considering the potential adaptation of Old Norse metrical grammar to the conventions of Old English verse, which results in the poem’s unusual structure,
Francisco J. Rozano-García
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