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The Icelandic Sagas as a Subject for Undergraduate Study [PDF]
, 2012 While medieval studies has dramatically expanded its scope and the texts taught as part of its subject over the past few decades, the study of Icelandic saga literature is still a fringe discipline, particularly in North American academe.
Sexton, John P.
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The Lord of the Sagas: Tolkien\u27s Tom Bombadil and his relation to the Icelandic Sagas
, 2013 Tom Bombadil\u27s significance as seen through the lens of the Icelandic Sagas and in relation to Tolkien\u27s own interaction with the ancient, norse ...
Price, Sarah Frances
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Sustainable Pasts and Futures in the Archaeological Imagination
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 4, Page 879-883, December 2025.
Kathryn A. Catlin
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Adapting a Literary Nation to Film: National Identity, Neoromanticism and the Anxiety of Influence
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2010 : This essay addresses the interrelations of film and literature in the Icelandic context by focusing primarily on two case studies. The first regards an early twentieth-century group of Neoromantic writers, commonly ...
Björn Ægir Norðfjörð
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Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021. [PDF]
Nature, 2022 Kuitems M +12 more
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Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie OccidentaleMedieval Icelandic sagas include the so-called ‘post-classical’ or ‘late’ Íslendingasögur (Sagas of Icelanders), a group of fourteenth-century texts that are compelling and innovative, as they challenge narrative conventions, especially from the point
Ceolin, Martina
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Cystic echinococcosis in Iceland: a brief history and genetic analysis of a 46-year-old Echinococcus isolate collected prior to the eradication of this zoonotic disease. [PDF]
Parasitology, 2023 Saarma U +4 more
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Names of swords in Icelandic sagas
, 2017 Named weapons of different origin and purpose occur in the Old Norse mythology, and some of them are better known than others: Thor's hammer Mjolnir and Odin's spear Gungnir, just to name a few.
Adetorp, Johan,
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Os varangos nas sagas islandesas [PDF]
, 2012 Resumo O presente artigo trata dos varangos de Bizâncio, um corpo de guerreiros mercenários constituído por escandinavos nos séculos X e XI, e da sua repercussão na literatura islandesa dos séculos XIII e XIV, mais especificamente nas Íslendingasögur ...
Moosburger, Théo de Borba
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REDEFINING LIMINALITY IN THE READING OF ICELANDIC SAGAS
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. PhilologiaRedefining Liminality in the Reading of Icelandic Sagas. This article introduces a revised and expanded definition of the concept of liminality, with the purpose of utilising it as a methodological tool in the study of the corpus of medieval Icelandic ...
Cristina Ioana ARDELEAN
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