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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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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, -
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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
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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
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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.
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