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Sacred Legal Places in Eddic Poetry: Reflected in Real Life?
Journal of the North Atlantic, 2013Abstract Eddic poetry constitutes an important gateway into the pre-Christian legal universe of Scandinavia. This paper presents a broader, deeper discusson of how the thing functions in the eddic poems and the legal language and motifs that are used around this concept.
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Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context
2013Hamðismal reports Hamðir’s last words and describes his death in a struggle against superior forces in these words:“Vel hofom við vegit, stondom a val Gotna, ofan, eggmoðom, sem ernir a qvisti; goðs hofom tirar fengið, þott scylim nu eða i gaer deyia, qveld lifi r maðr ecci eptir qvið norna.”
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Eddic poetry and the imagery of stone monuments
2016Many myths and legends preserved in eddic poetry had likely circulated in various artistic media long before they were shaped into the poetic forms that have come down to us in the Codex Regius collection of eddic poems (GKS 2365 4°; c. 1270) and other manuscripts.
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Performing Oaths in Eddic Poetry: Viking Age Fact or Medieval Fiction?
Journal of the North Atlantic, 2015Abstract It is argued here that eddic poetry, where oaths were sworn on items like rings and weapons, can provide insight into practices of swearing oaths in the real world of the Vikings. It is problematic that the earliest surviving manuscripts of the eddic poems date from the late 13th century, but other sources, including written sources from ...
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Eddic Poetry: A Gateway to Late Iron Age Ladies of Law
Journal of the North Atlantic, 2015Abstract This article argues that eddic poetry, where females are described attending assemblies, swearing oaths, receiving compensation, and taking revenge, can provide some insight into the real “ladies of law” of pre-Christian Scandinavia. In Christian times, when “law” was seen to emanate from the male God, considerable changes were introduced.
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The Prose Contexts of Eddic Poetry, Primarily in the Fornaldarsǫgur
2012This PhD thesis, The Prose Contexts of Eddic Poetry: Primarily in the Fornaldarsǫgur (University of Bergen, 2013), examines the interaction between prose and eddic verse in Old Norse literature, focusing on the fornaldarsǫgur (‘sagas of ancient times’), the Poetic Edda, and Gylfaginning in Snorra Edda.
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Lower secondary students’ poetry writing with the AI-based Poetry Machine
Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence, 2022Arja Kangasharju +2 more
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Kennings and other forms of figurative language in eddic poetry
2016The kenning, a poetic circumlocution comprised of two or more nouns, is usually associated with skaldic praise poetry in drottkvaett metre, where the kenning's lexical complexity and its allusive power – invoking the grand narratives of myths – could enhance a poet's tribute to his aristocratic patron.
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