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Place names in eddic poetry

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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Eddic Poetry

2008
Rather than being a genre in its own right, “Eddic poetry” is essentially a body of poetry dealing with Old Nordic mythology and Old Nordic/Germanic heroes that was preserved for the main part in two Icelandic manuscripts from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries: the Codex Regius (GKS 2365 4to: c. 1270) and the AM 748 IA 4to (c.
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A Handbook to Eddic Poetry

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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Alliterative lexical collocations in eddic poetry

2016
Lexical 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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Eddic poetry and heroic legend

2016
Introduction 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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Sacred Legal Places in Eddic Poetry: Reflected in Real Life?

Journal of the North Atlantic, 2013
Abstract 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

2013
Hamðismal 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

2016
Many 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, 2015
Abstract 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, 2015
Abstract 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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