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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology III: The Old Norse Poetic Ecology [PDF]
Studia Metrica et PoeticaThis paper is the third in a three-part series that develops a model for the background of rhyme in Old Norse dróttkvætt poetry as a formalization of the same form of rhyme found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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Preserving Blunders in Eddic Poems: Formula Variation in Numbered Inventories of Vafþrúðnismál and Grímnismál [PDF]
Scripta Islandica, 2021 The rise of interest in the orality of eddic poetry has tended to view the preserved corpus as oral poems without considering their transition into writing and its potential implications.
Frog
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Proper Name as a Marker of a Cosmogonic Song [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2017 The purpose of this article is to show the internal integrity of the Eddic Grímnismál (Sayings of Grímnir), putting forward that the proper name is the key element for understanding the structure and meaning of this Eddic song.
Tatiana V. Toporova
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Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2023 The late-medieval Icelandic poem Skaufalabálkur describes the final hunting trip of an old fox in a style mimicking heroic epic. The work is traditionally connected with poets working at or near Skarð in Western-Iceland in the 15th century and we argue ...
Haukur Þorgeirsson, William Sayers
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Scripta Islandica, 2023 The idea that Old Norse poetry derives from an oral tradition is commonly accepted in contemporary research. However, more detailed considerations of the consequences of this notion for our understanding of specific poems and their context are seldomly ...
Simon Nygaard
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The Fimbulvetr Myth as Medicine against Cultural Amnesia and Hybris
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2021 : An increasing number of scholars has associated the Fimbulvetr myth with the dust veil event of 536 CE, due to several apparent consistencies between its representations in eddic tradition, contemporary historical ...
Andrea Maraschi
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Marred in transmission? A new proposal for the questioning sequence in the Old Norse Svipdagsmál
Rhesis, 2015 The Old Norse Svipdagsmál is a composite piece of eddic poetry which comprises two complementary poems, Grógaldr and Fiǫlsvinnzmál. These two poems date to the 13th century, but they are only preserved in late paper manuscripts (17th-19th century).
Giorgio Basciu
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda [PDF]
, 2017 This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in
Reis, Jacob Robert
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Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : In the Poetic Edda, a multitude of understandings and ideas exist concerning the Otherworldly collective known as the álfar (Old Norse pl., sg. álfr). While the understandings are indeed many, they are not arbitrary.
Simon Nygaard
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Distinguishing Discourses of the Dísir
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : Previous studies of the dísir have tended to focus on either their links with fertility or use of the term to designate a wide range of supranatural female figures.
Luke John Murphy
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