The French connection: Some Icelandic translations of French literature in manuscript and print, ca. 1400-1900 [PDF]
Tabularia, 2019 The extent of manuscript production in medieval Iceland is well known; less well known is that manuscript transmission remained the norm in Iceland well into the modern era, long after the arrival of the printing press.
Matthew James Driscoll
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The Saga of Ambrosius and Rosamunda [PDF]
Scandinavian-Canadian StudiesThis article presents the first English translation of any version of Ambrósíus saga og Rósamunda, an Icelandic romance preserved in 20 manuscripts, the oldest being an abridged version of the narrative in AM 576 b 4to (c. 1700).
Sheryl McDonald
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 263-304., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jessica H. Whiteside +3 more
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Verb-second and verb-first in the history of Icelandic [PDF]
, 2021 The occurrence of V1 declaratives in Icelandic has attracted much attention in the generative literature (e.g. Sigurðsson 1990, Franco 2008), and such structures are known to be more frequent in earlier stages compared to the modern language.
Schätzle, Christin +3 more
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Wayward Heroes: Vagabonds in World Literature
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2019 : In Gerpla (1952), Halldór Laxness’s newly envisioned saga characters leave their native fjords and encounter different cultures on their travels abroad.
Birna Bjarnadóttir
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METAPHOR OF FORM IN “LILY” (architectonics of Icelandic Fourteenth century Christian Drapa)
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2018 Aim of the study is explication of the narrative technique of the person who composed “Lily”; research demands attention to the following aspects of the drapa: 1) its architectonics, i.e.
Nataliya L Ogurechnikova
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Handbook for the Deceased: Re-Evaluating Literature and Folklore in Icelandic Archaeology [PDF]
, 2021 The rich medieval Icelandic literary record, comprised of mythology, sagas, poetry, law codes and post-medieval folklore, has provided invaluable source material for previous generations of scholars attempting to reconstruct a pagan Scandinavian Viking ...
Prehal, Brenda Nicole
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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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Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Carbon capture technologies are poised to become one of the primary focuses regarding the achievement of net‐zero emissions by the year 2050. In these technologies, particular attention is given to post‐combustion CO2 capture, which is more easily implemented at existing power stations and other industries.
Satyajit Mukherjee +3 more
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A Different Story: The Fairy Tale in Old Norse Literature [PDF]
, 2023 Responding to the rapid growth of interest in the intersections between folklore and Old Norse literature in the field of Old Norse studies in recent years, this study aims at renewing and expanding the discussion on the relation between the fairy tale ...
Werth, Romina
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