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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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The Icelandic Hǫgni: The Re-imagining of a Nibelung Hero in the Eddic Tradition [PDF]
, 2017 The paper examines the characterization of Hǫgni across the poems of the Poetic Edda, assessing his depiction as a brother, as a husband and father, as a warrior, and as a king in order to build up an eddic-centric picture of his character and narrative ...
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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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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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Eddic Myth, Victorian Values: The Popularisation of Old Norse Mythology in Britain, 1837 to 1876.
, 2009 The essay examines the key works that helped to popularise eddic myths in Britain during the period from Queen Victoria’s accession in 1837 to her adoption of the title Empress of India in 1876, and it relates them to the main strands of Victorian ...
Ashurst, David
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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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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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Repetition in Old Norse Eddic Poetry: Poetic Style, Voice, and Desire [PDF]
, 2018 This thesis examines the use of repetition as a poetic device in Old Norse Eddic verse from a primarily stylistic point of view. Previous studies have noted the prominence of repetition as a feature of Eddic poetry, but without engaging in an in-depth ...
Sandberg, Peter Benedict
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