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Prototypes and structures in eddic poetry

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2017
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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On the Oral-Formulaic Theory and its Application in the Poetic Edda: The Cases of Alvíssmál and Hávamál

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2010
The aim of this essay is to make some considerations concerning the usage and the development of the Oral-Formulaic Theory since its initial stage in the field of Eddic studies.
Diego Ferioli
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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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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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Painful Love and Desire in Skírnismál

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
: The Eddic poem Skírnismál depicts erotically associated suffering in several instances. The god Freyr is filled with pain and grief when he first lays eyes on the beautiful jǫtunn maiden Gerðr.
Daniel Sävborg
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Frigg’s Cunning

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
SUMMARY: This article applies the initiation model, developed by Jens Peter Schjødtas a tool to identify themes of initiation in Old Norse myths, to the prose introductionof the eddic poem Grímnismál.
Henning Haglskær Kure
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Jötnar as “supernatural beings”: a cognitive matrix of the Old Norse verbal representations

Філологічні студії, 2023
This article addresses verbal representations of the mythic concept JÖTUNN (Engl. JOTUN) in Old Norse eddic texts. Jötnar as supernatural beings inherent to the Nordic mythic space are regarded as a class of open systems marked by a set of hypertrophied ...
Oleksandr Kolesnyk
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“Evil Mastermind” in the framework of a verbally modeled reality

Філологічні студії, 2022
This article considers language means verbalizing the EVIL MASTERMIND in the framework of an alternative pop-cultural world. The paper regards an alternative reality as a logical construal, the result of categorizing and modeling activities.
Oleksandr Kolesnyk, А. Гурина
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Vad var Vandilsvé?

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
: Vandilsvé is mentioned one single time in Helgakviða Hundingsbana II:35, and it is usually understood as a theophoric place-name. The first element has been read as the name of an otherwise unknown Vandal god, *Vandill, but this interpretation has ...
Anders Andrén
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Potato crisps for squirrel Ratatosk and hiking equipment for the first settler Ingólfur. Reception of old icelandic culture in poems by Þórarinn Eldjárn [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2019
Þórarinn Eldjárn is one of the few contemporary Icelandic poets who regularly address the themes of Old Icelandic literature in their poems, including poems for children.
Olga Markelova
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