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On the Numerical Code of the Eddic Cosmogony: the Völuspá

open access: yesIndo-European linguistics and classical philology
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AN EDDIC ANALOGUE TO THE SCYLD SCEFING STORY

Review of English Studies, The, 1989
NINETEENTH-CENTURY research in the mythological background of Beowulf is characterized by a habit of discerning shamanistic cult figures behind nearly every character in the poem. Thus, for example, in the famous view of Karl Miillenhoff, Grendel comes to stand for the North Sea, flooding the Germanic coast in spring, so that humans must be saved by ...
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Eddic performance and eddic audiences

2016
What exactly was an eddic poem? The first thing that can be stated with any certainty is that it was not what it has become – in other words, a poem written in ink on parchment or paper, gathered together in a book with other poems in a format designed essentially for silent, private reading, in which all the stanzas can be quickly viewed side by side ...
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