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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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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).
Carolyne Larrington
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Eddic poetry and the imagery of stone monuments
2016Many 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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Sacred Legal Places in Eddic Poetry: Reflected in Real Life?
Journal of the North Atlantic, 2013Abstract 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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Formulaic theme and wisdom in Eddic poetry [PDF]
This thesis explores how wisdom was delivered in Eddic poetry via the mechanism of formulaic theme. It demonstrates how the delivery of wisdom was a vital part of Eddic poetry, and that even poems not typically counted amongst the wisdom canon contain the same elements found in texts such as Hávamál. Additionally, this thesis explores how the formulaic
Mawford, Christopher
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The Old Norse Analogue: Eddic Poetry and Fornaldarsaga
Religion and Society, 1990exaly +2 more sources