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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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Parallelism in verbal art and performance : an introduction [PDF]
, 2017 Frog is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Associate Professor in Folklore Studies at the University of Helsinki. He completed his Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies at the University College London in 2010 and his Docentship (Habilitation) in Folklore
Frog, Tarkka, Lotte
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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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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae I: When is a Valkyrie Like a Spear? [PDF]
, 2014 This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realized.
Frog, -
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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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