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“Ór franzeisu í norrænu” The transmission of Chrétien de Troyes’ Arthurian romances to old Norse literature [PDF]
, 2007 The present dissertation examines the riddarasogur based on the Arthurian romances by Chrétien de Troyes: Ívens saga, Erex saga, Parcevals saga and Valvens þáttr.
Lorenz, Christine
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Dissent versus conformism in Þórðar Saga Kakala (13th-century Iceland) [PDF]
Revista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2019 The aim of this article is to highlight some developments in the writing of contemporary sagas in respect to their role in strengthening and perpetuating a discourse of power aimed at establishing the 13th-century incipient Icelandic aristocracy.
Costel Coroban
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Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2019 : Asking the titular question entails considering different concepts of authorship, from the modern sense of the term to Michel Foucault’s idea of the “author function,” as well as considering Halldór Laxness’s connection with the ...
Ástráður Eysteinsson
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Maternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Few studies have explored associations between indexes incorporating both breastfeeding and complementary feeding and future risk of overweight/obesity. The aim of this study was to explore associations between a previously developed Infant Diet Score (IDS; higher score reflecting better alignment with breastfeeding and complementary feeding ...
Jenny Jonsdottir +3 more
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The King is dead’: The thanatology of kings in the Old Norse synoptic histories of Norway, 1035-1161 [PDF]
, 2005 The Old Norse Synoptic Histories of Norway can make a valuable contribution to thanatology (the study of attitudes towards death) and the history of medieval thought.
Salvucci, Giovanna
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“Some call Europe, and some call Eneá”: on the origins of the Old Icelandic learned prehistory
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2019 By the 12th century, northern territories were fairly well known in practice, but there was an urgent need to explain the state of this region in written form. In most national narratives, there is an evident tendency to emphasise the similarity of local
Jackson Tatjana N.
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“Ek Skal Hér Ráða”: Themes of Female Honor in the Icelandic Sagas
, 2014 There was a separate and unique code of honor and ethics for women living in Iceland during the Viking Age. What was female honor? Were Icelandic women expected to abide by a code of honor just like men?
Susan Elizabeth Rivenbark (22013108)
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A new resource for Icelandic sagas. Digitizing normalized editions and enhancing textual data
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries PublicationsThis article accounts for a new project which aims to digitize and make available normalized scholarly editions of Old Icelandic texts. The project is based on a print publication of Icelandic family sagas.
Ellert Johannsson, Finnur Ingimundarson
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The Nordic vision: Broadcasting Nordicness in the televised Nordic Council prize ceremonies
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 302-322, August 2025.Abstract Since 2013, the Nordic Council prizes have been awarded at live broadcast ceremonies in the Nordic countries. The Nordic Council Prize in Literature is the most prestigious, but like the other prizes, it is also part of a regional political project by the Nordic Council based on a culture of prize‐giving.
Henrik Fürst, Johanna Pettersson Fürst
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