Results 1 to 10 of about 1,044 (144)

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.
Kristján Árnason
doaj   +5 more sources

Metrical Positions and their Linguistic Realisations in Old Germanic Metres: A Typological Overview [PDF]

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014
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
doaj   +4 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.
Joseph Harris
doaj   +3 more sources

John McKinnell. Essays on Eddic Poetry.

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2016
Scott A. Mellor
doaj   +2 more sources

The Fox as a Dying Hero: An Edition and Translation of the Late Medieval Icelandic Poem Skaufalabálkur

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2023
The late-medieval Icelandic poem Skaufalabálkur describes the final hunting trip of an old fox in a style mimicking heroic epic. The work is traditionally connected with poets working at or near Skarð in Western-Iceland in the 15th century and we argue ...
Haukur Þorgeirsson, William Sayers
doaj   +1 more source

Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology I: Overview and Argument

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023
This paper is the first in a three-part series or tryptic that argues for the Old Germanic origins of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter. This meter requires rhymes on the stressed syllables of two words within a six-position line, irrespective of ...
Frog
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Religious Ritual Frameworks in the Oral Performance of the Old Norse, Eddic-Style Praise Poems Hákonar­mál, Eiríksmál, and Hrafnsmál

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
doaj   +1 more source

Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology II: Rhyme as an Inherited Device of Old Germanic Verse

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023
This paper is the second in a three-part series on the distinctive type of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter, argued to have emerged through the metricalization of uses of rhyme within a short line found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond ‘ása ok álfa’

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
doaj   +1 more source