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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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Interpreting Eddic Poetry Project
Interpreting Eddic Poetry Project Responsables du projet/Project leaders : Carolyne Larrington (carolyne.larrington@sjc.ox.ac.uk), Judy Quinn (jeq20@cam.ac.uk) Établissements principaux/Main institutions : University of Oxford, University of Cambridge ...
Rédaction
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Metrical Positions and their Linguistic Realisations in Old Germanic Metres: A Typological Overview
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 performance and eddic audiences
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 ...
Terry Gunnell
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Eddic Poetry as World Literature
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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Formulaic theme and wisdom in Eddic poetry [PDF]
This thesis explores how wisdom was delivered in Eddic poetry via the mechanism of formulaic theme. It demonstrates how the delivery of wisdom was a vital part of Eddic poetry, and that even poems not typically counted amongst the wisdom canon contain the same elements found in texts such as Hávamál. Additionally, this thesis explores how the formulaic
Mawford, Christopher
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Alliterative lexical collocations in eddic poetry
Lexical collocations stem from the diction of traditional oral alliterative poetry and may be regarded as one of the stylistic features which characterise the corpus of mythological and heroic lays preserved in Codex Regius (GKS 2365, 4°). The versifiers’ creation of privileged, though not necessarily semantically close, combinations of two or more ...
RUGGERINI, MARIA ELENA +1 more
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John McKinnell. Essays on Eddic Poetry.
Scott A. Mellor
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Preserving Blunders in Eddic Poems: Formula Variation in Numbered Inventories of Vafþrúðnismál and Grímnismál [PDF]
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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'Shadow' and paradoxes of darkness in Old English and Old Norse poetic language [PDF]
This thesis confronts, explores, and attempts to meaningfully interpret a surprising nexus of stimulating cruces and paradoxes in Old English poetry and prose and Old Norse skaldic and Eddic poetry.
Missuno, Filip
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