An edition and study of "Nikulás saga leikara" [PDF]
, 1996 Nikulás saga leikara (Nsl.) tells the story of Nikulás, king of Hungary. His foster-father, Earl Svívari, convinces him to stop playing with magic and try to win Princess Dorma of Constantinople as a bride. Svívari makes a secret betrothal with Dorma,
Wick, Keren H.
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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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Analysing the Large Decline in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in the Icelandic Population Aged 25-74 between the Years 1981 and 2006. [PDF]
, 2010 BACKGROUND: Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates have been decreasing in Iceland since the 1980s. We examined how much of the decrease between 1981 and 2006 could be attributed to medical and surgical treatments and how much to changes in ...
Aspelund, T +43 more
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Satinath Bhaduri’s Bengali Novels Jagari (The Vigil) and Dhorai Charit Manas as Utopian Literature. [PDF]
, 2019 This article analyses two novels in Bengali by Satinath Bhaduri, Jagari (1946, translated into English as The Vigil) and Dhorai Charit Manas (1949–51, translated into English as Dhorai Charit Manas).
Barnita Bagchi +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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Review: Front Lines. Soldiers’ Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World, written by Miguel Martínez [PDF]
, 2018 Miguel Martínez, Front Lines. Soldiers’ Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, 309 pp., ISBN 978 0 812 24842 5.
ICON - Early Modern Literature +2 more
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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 Þórður kakali [PDF]
, 2020 Icelandic literature, Nordic civil wars, saga, the Age of Sturlungar, thirteenth-century Iceland, Þórður kakali ...
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Circulating in Commonplaces: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Celebrity Status in the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2018 This article questions the supposed pervasive celebrity of the American author Harriet Beecher Stowe in Europe in the nineteenth century, and investigates her authorial status in the Netherlands in the mid-1850s.
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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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