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Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2019 Today we know much about the culture of the Viking Age, but there are still gaps to fill. One of them is what the legendary weapon called atgeirr in Icelandic sagas really was. Nowadays researchers prefer to view atgeir as a kind of spear.
Yulia Shtyryakova
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A quest for the atgeir: the unknown Viking weapon in Icelandic sagas and archaeological data
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2019 Today we know much about the culture of the Viking Age, but there are still gaps to fill. One of them is what the legendary weapon called atgeirr in Icelandic sagas really was. Nowadays researchers prefer to view atgeir as a kind of spear.
Shtyryakova Yulia
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 7, July 2025.Abstract The ocean acts as a major carbon sink, absorbing anthropogenic CO2 and mitigating climate change. The North Atlantic Ocean, particularly the western North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre (NASG), plays a crucial role in this process, yet the mechanisms governing the transport of anthropogenic carbon (Canth) remain incompletely understood.
Daniel Santana‐Toscano +2 more
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Maternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 21, Issue 3, July 2025.This study provided valuable information about breastfeeding and complementary feeding in a nationwide study of infants born in 2009–2015. The novel infant diet score was associated with various maternal, demographic, and birth characteristics, as well as overweight/obesity at 12 and 18 months of age.
Jenny Jonsdottir +3 more
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The fantastic in the family sagas : implications for saga authorship [PDF]
, 2006 There is increasing acceptance that characterisation in the family sagas is complex enough to include the subtle incorporation of protagonists’ inner lives. Thus, despite saga authors’ apparent desire to pass on traditional stories, saga characterization
Gislason, Kari
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A Modern-Day Saga in Fancy Dress: Contemporary Social Critique in Halldór Laxnessʼs Gerpla
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2019 : This article was written by literary scholar, publisher, and socialist parliamentarian Kristinn E. Andrésson (1901–1973) shortly after Gerpla’s publication in 1952. However, it was only published nearly twenty years later,
Kristinn E. Andrésson
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Teaching The Legal Culture of Icelandic Sagas In a First-Year Writing Seminar
New Chaucer StudiesReading Icelandic Sagas against a medieval legal background in a First-Year Writing Seminar is a useful way to teach students the bones of academic argument.
Andreea D. Boboc
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Droit et Cultures, 2017 In medieval Scandinavia, betrayal (svika) holds an important place. First, because as opposite of trust (trú), it characterizes misconduct which made its author a vile person, away from drengr who has constantly an honorable attitude.
Gilduin Davy
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Staroseverské rytířské ságy a jejich proměny // Old Norse chivalric sagas and their transformations [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2017 This study examines the most characteristic features of the Scandinavian prose romances. The contrast between the translated and original chivalric sagas is illustrated on the Norwegian translation of the Song of Roland and on the late Icelandic re ...
Markéta Ivánková
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“Ek Skal Hér Ráða”: Themes of Female Honor in the Icelandic Sagas [PDF]
, 2011 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?
NC DOCKS at Appalachian State University +1 more
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