The ghost of Sigurd the Volsung in Eketahuna [PDF]
, 2017 While William Morris was creating the narrative poem based on his translations of the Icelandic tales of Sigurd the Volsung, in the 1870’s, groups of Scandinavian settlers were encouraged to come to New Zealand as part of a grand scheme of borrowing ...
Pittaway, Gail
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Standards for Networking Ancient Person-data: Digital approaches to problems in prosopographical space [PDF]
, 2017 Prosopographies disambiguate names appearing in sources by creating lists of persons, but the progress of scholarship now makes these lists difficult to maintain.
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Existential issues in the fictional writing of haruki murakami
International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2024.Abstract Existential analyses of Murakami's fiction have dealt mostly with identity issues during adolescence and adulthood. This article presents a different existential conceptualization by examining how Yalom's four ultimate life concerns—isolation, meaninglessness, freedom, and death ─ are embodied in the life of some of Haruki Murakami's fictional
David Potik
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Forgotten Laxdæla poetry : a study and an edition of Tyrfingur Finnsson's Vísur uppá Laxdæla sögu [PDF]
, 2017 The paper discusses the metre and the diction of a previously unpublished small poem about characters of Laxdæla saga, composed in 18th century. The stanzas are ostensibly in skaldic dróttkvætt; the analysis shows it to be an imitation of the classical ...
Sverdlov, Ilya, Vanherpen, Sofie
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Remembrance of the ancestors in contemporary paganism: Lineage, identity, and cultural belonging in the Irish context [PDF]
, 2015 This article explores some of the ways of remembering and honouring the ancestors in contemporary Pagan religious traditions, with a focus on the Irish context. An overview is provided of how the "ancestors" are conceptualised within Paganism, as well as
Butler, Jenny
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Fenja and Menja Moil at the Mill, A Visual Modern Interpretation of Female Role in Old Norse Mythology [PDF]
, 2015 for \u22Fenja and Menja Moil at the Mill\u22 Through my video installation I interpret an Old Norse myth in a new way. My aim is to replace the male gaze with my own while imagining the myth in a modern context.
Sparks, Michelle
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Loki'nin Müjdesi ve Loki Fesatlığın Kalbinde'de Loki mitinin revize edilmesi [PDF]
, 2022 Mitlerin yeniden yazımı Rönesans döneminden beri var olmaktadır ve günümüzde de hala popüler bir uygulamadır. Özellikle postmodernist anlamda yeniden yazım ötekiye, önemsenmeyene ve marjinalleştirilmişe söz hakkı tanımayı amaçlar.
Demirbakan, Fatma
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Remembering Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)uðga Ketilsdóttir: construction of cultural memory and female religious identity [PDF]
, 2013 Medieval Icelandic literature recounts stories of both pagans and Christians settling in Iceland. Most of these stories focus on a male protagonist. However one of these tales centres around a female settler, namely Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)úðga Ketilsdóttir ...
Vanherpen, Sofie
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I, the dark woman, in the trajectory of your consciousness: Indian born British poet Usha Kishore in conversation with Sutapa Chaudhuri [PDF]
, 2014 Indian born Usha Kishore is an award winning British poet, writer and translator and a well-known voice in contemporary Indian Writing in English. Usha now lives on the Isle of Man, where she teaches English in a Secondary School.
Chaudhuri, Sutapa, Usha Kishore
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Linking Law: Viking and Medieval Scandinavian Law in Literature and History [PDF]
, 2020 This short magazine article highlights ongoing interdisciplinary scholarship which has cast light on the surprisingly sophisticated world of Viking-Age and Medieval Scandinavian law and its wide-ranging influence in these ...
Ruiter, Keith
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