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Constructing History: The Use of the Past as a Model for the Present in the Icelandic Sagas [PDF]

Collegium Medievale, 2010
The Icelandic sagas can be read and interpreted in many ways. This article examines the sagas both as literary expressions of a longstanding oral tradition and as part of a collective and cultural memory.
Michael Riber Jørgensen
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Holy vikings: Saints' lives in the old Icelandic kings' sagas

, 2007
The biographies of royal saints in the Old Icelandic kings’ sagas are usually described as “secular” or “profane” texts and not “proper” saints’ lives. This book argues that theoretical concepts developed by Mikhail Bakhtin can provide new insights into ...
Phelpstead, Carl Luke
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Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar [PDF]

, 2007
My project analyses the extent to which, though a process of translation (or rewriting), skaldic poetry has been appropriated and manipulated in such a way as to help construct ideas of national identity.
Porter, Edel Maria
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The literary significance of clothing in the Icelandic family sagas [PDF]

, 1992
This thesis examines the occurrences of clothes and the particular ways in which they are used in some of the Icelandic family sagas in order to assess their literary significance.
Roscoe, Jane Christine
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Translating Medieval Icelandic Sagas [PDF]

, 2018
Within the framework of Translation Studies, much consideration has been given to the role recipients play in a translation process. However, a number of important questions arise in this regard when considering the translation of texts that are ...
Martina Ceolin
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“TATARS” AND THE “STATE OF THE TATARS” IN OLD NORSE-ICELANDIC LITERATURE

Золотоордынское обозрение
Research objective: The purpose of this study is to present the entire body of information about the Tatars and the Tatar State contained in Old Norse-Icelandic literature.Research materials: The materials are the works of Old Norse-Icelandic writing of ...
Jackson T.N., Litovskikh E.V.
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Two Sagas from New Iceland: Reference and Allusion in Gimli Saga and Icelandic River Saga

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
When Manitoba’s Icelandic settler community composed its local history books two of the titles included the term saga: Gimli Saga (1975), authored by The Gimli Women’s Institute, and Icelandic River Saga (1985), authored by local historian Nelson ...
Andrew McGillivray, Ella Brown-Terry
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Helskobinding - i litterær og religionshistorisk belysning

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1987
The starting point of this article is the problem of the reliability of information in the Icelandic sagas about Norse religion. It seems that there is a possibility of getting indirect information from the texts themselves.
Inger Vibeke Hansen
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“Little Glory Will It Bring You To Break My Short Bones“

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
This paper explores representations of dvergar (sing. dvergr) in medieval Icelandic narrative sources to ascertain to what extent dvergar were associated with dwarfism and how these links developed over time.
Alice Bower
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Pole-weapons in the Sagas of Icelanders

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
The Icelandic sagas are a major source of information on the Vikings and their fighting prowess. In these stories, several mysterious pole-weapons appear, which are often called “halberds”, for lack of a better word.
Jan H. Orkisz
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