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The representation of gender in eddic poetry

2016
David Clark, Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir   +1 more
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Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

, 2019
In the past few decades, interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a great deal of interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Until the 1980s,
Carol J. Clover, John Lindow
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Introduction to Electrodynamics

, 2017
In this new edition of the standard undergraduate textbook on electricity and magnetism, David Griffiths provides expanded discussions on topics such as the nature of field lines, the crystal ambiguity, eddy currents, and the Thomson kink model.
D. Griffiths
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Eddic Poetry

2008
Rather than being a genre in its own right, “Eddic poetry” is essentially a body of poetry dealing with Old Nordic mythology and Old Nordic/Germanic heroes that was preserved for the main part in two Icelandic manuscripts from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries: the Codex Regius (GKS 2365 4to: c. 1270) and the AM 748 IA 4to (c.
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Eddic modes and genres

2016
Part of the attraction of eddic poetry for modern readers lies in its particularly compelling blend of the familiar and the remote. It presents a strange world, distanced physically and chronologically from that of its audience; a world populated by larger-than-life characters drawn from myth and legend who experience a correspondingly heightened form ...
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A Handbook to Eddic Poetry

2016
This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as ...
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Alliterative lexical collocations in eddic poetry

2016
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 ...
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Eddic Lays.

Modern Language Notes, 1943
Stefan Einarsson, Frederic T. Wood
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The Criteria for Dating the Eddic Poems

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1927
In discussing the date of the Eddie poems one must carefully distinguish three factors: the date of their written compilation or recording, the date of their actual composition by the poet, and the age of the mythological, legendary and other material which they contain. In speaking of the age of the Eddie poems it is clear that we are referring to the
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Performing Oaths in Eddic Poetry: Viking Age Fact or Medieval Fiction?

Journal of the North Atlantic, 2015
A. Riisøy
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