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Chapter 6: A Renaissance Figure: Magnús Ólafsson of Laufás [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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Eggertsdóttir, Margrét
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Misjöfn Verks: Gendered Division of Labour and Social/Instrumental Power in the Viking Age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
HIST 4990, History of TechnologyLA&PS 2018 Writing Prize Finalists, 4th Year Honourable ...
Roberts, V. M.
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Skaldic Poetics and the Making of the Sagas of Icelanders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Page range: 117 ...
Nordal, Guðrún
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The Goddess: Myths of the Great Mother

open access: yes, 2016
The Goddess is all around us: Her face is reflected in the burgeoning new growth of every ensuing spring; her power is evident in the miracle of conception and childbirth and in the newborn’s cry as it searches for the nurturing breast; we glimpse her in
Fee, Christopher R., Leeming, David
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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology III: The Old Norse Poetic Ecology [PDF]

open access: yes
This 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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"Liquid Knowledge" in Old Norse Literature and Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva
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The Literary Adaptation of Vǫluspá in Hauksbók and Snorra Edda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The three versions of Vǫluspá display substantial differences in their references to speaker and audience. In 2013, the present author investigated such references in the Codex Regius version of the poem, and argued that the puzzling deictic ...
Thorvaldsen, Bernt Ø.
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Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry: A Narrative Study of Vafþrúðnismál [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this study, McGillivray explores the cultural environment in which the Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál was composed and re-examines the relationship between form and content in the poem and the respective influences of pre-Christian beliefs and Christian ...
McGillivray, Andrew E
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Creating a Norm for the Vernacular [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The article deals with the birth of a linguistic norm in Iceland and Italy. The dis­cussion focuses on four works, which lay the foundations for the discussion of grammar and poetics in their respective vernaculars, namely Dante Alighieri’s De vulgari ...
Tarsi, Matteo
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