Results 1 to 10 of about 1,025 (128)
Prototypes and structures in eddic poetry [PDF]
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.
Árnason, Kristján
openaire +5 more sources
The dating of eddic poetry [PDF]
, 2016 Origins and delivery This chapter discusses how eddic poetry is dated, and deals mainly with the poems preserved in the Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius, GKS 2365 4 o (R), from around 1275, and similar poems in a few other medieval manuscripts from Iceland (see the Introduction for a discussion of how the corpus of eddic poetry is defined).
Suzuki, Seiichi
openaire +3 more sources
Eddic Poetry as World Literature [PDF]
Collegium Medievale, 2017 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. Today it is difficult to image any single scholar staking a significant claim to such a variety of learned fields, including Indo-European and Scandinavian linguistics and ...
Harris, Joseph
openaire +3 more sources
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
openaire +3 more sources
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
core +11 more sources
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
core +1 more source
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, -
core +3 more sources
Guðbrandur Vigfússon as an editor of Old Norse-Icelandic literature [PDF]
, 2016 Guðbrandur Vigfússon, an Icelander born in Galtardalur, Dalasýsla, was without doubt one of the most influential scholars of Old Norse studies of his day.
Bjork +8 more
core +2 more sources
Tolkien’s Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún: Creative Drama or Scholarly Exercise? [PDF]
, 2013 J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún consists of two long narrative poems on the major events of Völsunga saga, making use, where possible, of eddic sources as well as the saga, and accompanied by notes written by Tolkien himself, but edited ...
McTurk, Rory
core +1 more source
A cautionary tale: Reading the runic message in Atlamál in grœnlenzko [PDF]
, 2017 Of the many references to runes in the Poetic Edda, the depiction of the runic communication between Guðrún and Kostbera in the poem Atlamál in grœnlenzko is one of the most intriguing.
Birkett, Thomas
core +1 more source