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2016
There have been few analyses of place-name usage in Old Norse poetry. We have the odd article discussing names in poems such as Ynglingatal (e.g. Noreen 1925; Akerlund 1939; Vikstrand 2004) and, of course, the related Old English Beowulf and Widsið .
Stefan Brink, John Lindow
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There have been few analyses of place-name usage in Old Norse poetry. We have the odd article discussing names in poems such as Ynglingatal (e.g. Noreen 1925; Akerlund 1939; Vikstrand 2004) and, of course, the related Old English Beowulf and Widsið .
Stefan Brink, John Lindow
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2016
This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as ...
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This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as ...
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Eddic poetry and heroic legend
2016Introduction In his preface to a recent collection of essays on eddic heroic poetry and heroic legend, Tom Shippey remarks on the nineteenth-century realisation that ‘there was something recognisable in the heroic poems of what came to be called “the Elder Edda”’ (Shippey 2013: xiv).
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Alliterative lexical collocations in eddic poetry
2016Lexical collocations stem from the diction of traditional oral alliterative poetry and may be regarded as one of the stylistic features which characterise the corpus of mythological and heroic lays preserved in Codex Regius (GKS 2365, 4°). The versifiers’ creation of privileged, though not necessarily semantically close, combinations of two or more ...
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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: 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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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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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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