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Erosive and Mechanical Tooth Wear in Viking Age Icelanders [PDF]
Dentistry Journal, 2017 (1) Background: The importance of the Icelandic Sagas as a source of information about diet habits in medieval Iceland, and possibly other Nordic countries, is obvious.
Svend Richter, Sigfus Thor Eliasson
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Zealots of christian piety in medieval Scandinavia: the case of Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir
Науковий вісник Чернівецького національного університету імені Юрія Федьковича. Історія, 2023 This article studies the characteristics of one of the main female characters presented in the Vinland sagas – Gudrid Torbjarnardóttir, who was the personification of an ideal pious Christian. Such an image was characteristic of the so-called exemplum –
Іван Воротняк
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Recent Translations of the Medieval Icelandic Bishops' Sagas
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2023 This article reviews the two most recent English-language translations of medieval sagas of Icelandic bishops, both from 2021: Margaret Cormack's The Saga of St.
Ryder C. Patzuk-Russell
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Reception of the sagas of icelanders in modern icelandic poetry: the poem "Maðr inn skammi" by Hallgrímur Helgason [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2023 The article deals with the particular case of reception of the "Sagas of Icelanders“ in modern Icelandic poetry. The plot of the poem "Maðr inn skammi“ (The Short Man) by Hallgrímur Helgason is based in the Chapter 66 of Egil's Saga, namely the fight of ...
Olga Markelova
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Kulturella Perspektiv, 2022 The sagas of Icelanders contain a great wealth of personal names both of historical and fictional nature. Personal names function both as identifiers for individuals but also evoke associations that supersede the name’s lexical or identifying meaning ...
Solveig Bollig
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Gerður Kristný Guðjónsdóttir: „Poles“ (2019) [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2021 This publication contains selected translations into Russian from the book The Poles (Heimskaut, 2019) by Gerður Kristný Guðjónsdóttur, the contemporary Icelandic poet. Allusions to literary and historical plots in this book are of considerable interest.
Olga Markelova
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Opferbeschreibungen in christlichen Schriften
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990 The article analyses Christian influences as they can be observed in the narrations of traditional Icelandic Sagas from the early Christian period. It gives special attention to rituals of offering as these are depicted in the Landnámabók (dating from ...
Jón Aðalsteinsson
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Guardian of Memory: Halldór Laxness, Saga Editor
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2019 : During the 1940s the Icelandic novelist Halldór Laxness embarked on a project to oversee the publication of five medieval sagas. The project emerged as a response to certain editorial practices common to the time and,
Christopher Crocker
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Icelandic Literature in the U.S.: On the Question of National Borders in Literature [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2016 Literature has been central to Icelandic culture in the history of the nation. Icelandic immigrants in the U.S. created an original literature in their native tongue that, on the one hand, continued a rich Icelandic literary tradition going back to sagas
Andrey V. Korovin
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On the Navigation from Indialand to Denmark and on Menelaus, Konung of the Tattararíkah: Geographical Descriptions in the Icelandic-Norwegian Chronicles and Sagas [PDF]
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2013 The article deals with geographic descriptions in the Icelandic sagas. In the 12th through the 14th centuries Scandinavia special geographical works contained descriptions of the inhabited world based both on West-European chorographical tradition and ...
T.N. Jackson
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