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The color brown in Old Norse-Icelandic literature
Nowele, 2017The article examines the use of the color brown in Old Norse-Icelandic literature, which is encoded bybrúnnandjarpr. More specifically, it seeks to determine through linguistic categorization the objects about which brown is used and to determine on the basis of its frequency whether for Old Norse-Icelandic brown should be placed in the earlier stages ...
Kirsten Wolf
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The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
Journal of English and Germanic PhilologyA landmark new history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to a unique and celebrated body of medieval writing. Chapters by internationally recognized experts offer the latest in-depth analysis of every significant genre and group of texts in the corpus, including sagas and skaldic verse, romances and ...
Marianne Kalinke, Kalinke Marianne
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A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture
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The Color Grey in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2009In their seminal work, Basic Color Terms, the linguist-anthropologists Brent Berlin and Paul Kay analyzed the color terms of close to one hundred of the world’s languages, belonging to a variety of linguistic families and/or groups.1 They challenged the thesis of relativism in the encoding of color and advanced an alternative hypothesis, arguing that ...
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Old Norse–Icelandic Literature and German Culture
2011The perception of Old Norse literature in post-medieval times moves between an aesthetically motivated international interest and its constriction initially to national and then nationalistic concerns. The article examines this development by analyzing how Old Norse material is used for the construction of a German national consciousness from the end ...
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