The recurring collocation of vreiðr and vega in Old Norse poetry
Manuscript and Text CulturesPoetry in early Germanic vernaculars exhibits variations on a metrical form predicated on a pattern of alliterating stressed syllables linking two halves of a line (in contrast to syllabic metres in which scansion requires a fixed number of syllables ...
James Parkhouse
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Interpreting Eddic Poetry Project
Mondes normands médiévaux, 2014 Interpreting Eddic Poetry Project Responsables du projet/Project leaders : Carolyne Larrington (carolyne.larrington@sjc.ox.ac.uk), Judy Quinn (jeq20@cam.ac.uk) Établissements principaux/Main institutions : University of Oxford, University of Cambridge ...
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Orality, literacy, and the making of 13th century Eddic Poetry
, 2007 The Codex Regius of the Elder Edda (GKS 2365 4to), a medieval manuscript wrought with speculation, who created it and for what purpose? It has long been assumed that eddic poetry was oral poetry and yet this unique codex of mythological and heroic eddic poems seems to betray every arguable sign of literary workings.
Holstad, May May Natalie
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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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Visions et spectres dans la littérature norroise : aperçus sur la culture germanique ancienne
Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2012 Ancient Germanic culture was kept in an exceptionally accurate way in Old Norse literature such as it has been recorded by medieval Icelandic clerics.
Daniel Lacroix
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Preserving Blunders in Eddic Poems : Formula Variation in Numbered Inventories of Vafþrúðnismál and Grímnismál [PDF]
, 2021 The rise of interest in the orality of eddic poetry has tended to view the preserved corpus as oral poems without considering their transition into writing and its potential implications.
Frog, Mr.,, Mr. Frog, Frog, Mr.
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Marred in transmission? A new proposal for the questioning sequence in the Old Norse Svipdagsmál
Rhesis, 2015 The Old Norse Svipdagsmál is a composite piece of eddic poetry which comprises two complementary poems, Grógaldr and Fiǫlsvinnzmál. These two poems date to the 13th century, but they are only preserved in late paper manuscripts (17th-19th century).
Giorgio Basciu
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Studia Metrica et PoeticaThis paper is the third in a three-part series that develops a model for the background of rhyme in Old Norse dróttkvætt poetry as a formalization of the same form of rhyme found across Old Germanic poetries.
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 ...
Rory McTurk, McTurk, Rory
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