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Disappearance of Icelandic Walruses Coincided with Norse Settlement. [PDF]
Mol Biol Evol, 2019 Keighley X +7 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð +3 more
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The Grave Mound of a Saga Hero
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : The article presents a case study within the recent renaissance of folkloristic approaches to Old Norse-Icelandic religious history and saga literature.
Matthias Egeler
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The library of the genius: The manuscript collection of Rasmus Christian Rask
Tabularia, 2016 The Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagen houses the Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript collection of the famous Danish linguist Rasmus Rask (1787-1832) that comprises 127 post-medieval volumes.
Silvia Hufnagel
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda [PDF]
, 2017 This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in
Reis, Jacob Robert
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Magical Music in Old Norse Literature
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996 No society ever existed without performing music, and most cultures display many variants of music. Music also played and still plays an important part in different religious rites. From the days of yore, music has been intimately connected with the cult,
Britt-Mari Näsström
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Scandinavian Journal of History, 2022 The Old English account known as Ohthere’s Voyage preserves a ninth-century description of ‘Norðmannaland’ (the land of the Northmen) given by Ohthere, a sailor from northern Norway, at the court of Alfred the Great.
Ben Allport
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Child abandonment as an indicator of Christianization in the Nordic countries
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990 In the Nordic countries, child abandonment seems to have been a commonly accepted social tradition until the acceptance of Christianity. When Christian influences reached the Far North, this old practice was gradually criminalized.
Juha Pentikäinen
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Imagining Vínland : George Mackay Brown and the literature of the New World [PDF]
, 2013 This essay looks at George Mackay Brown's novel of 1992, Vinland, in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century “foundation myth” literature inspired by the Viking discovery of North America as originally recounted in medieval Icelandic sagas. This
Arnold, Martin
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Old Norse in Italy: From Francesco Saverio Quadrio to Fóstbræðra saga
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2019 : Old Norse texts and literary motifs have been circulating in Italian literature since an early period of its history.
Fulvio Ferrari
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