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Icelandic Literature in the U.S.: On the Question of National Borders in Literature [PDF]
, 2016 Literature has been central to Icelandic culture in the history of the nation. Icelandic immigrants in the U.S. created an original literature in their native tongue that, on the one hand, continued a rich Icelandic literary tradition going back to sagas
Andrey V. Korovin
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Black Feathers and Poison Wine Decadent Aesthetics in Davíð Stefánsson’s Poetry
LeaDavíð Stefánsson (1895-1964) is a poet whose work marks a turning point in early twentieth-century Icelandic literature. This essay offers five new English translations from his first collection Black Feathers (Svartar Fjaðrir,1919) and introduces a new ...
Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this study, we report the first documented occurrence of the Icelandic Vedde Ash (VA) in the Bohemian Forest, identified within palaeolake sediments from Stará Jímka, Czechia, representing the first Icelandic tephra layer identified in Czechia.
Verena Meier +3 more
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Southern Portugal hydroclimate of the last millennium from near‐annually resolved speleothem records
Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Hydroclimate in Portugal is influenced by the North Atlantic subtropical high‐pressure system (the Azores High) and by internal climate modes, most prominently the North Atlantic Oscillation, which may shift in position and/or intensity due to anthropogenic climate change.
Alaina Chormann +10 more
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Icelandic plus English: language differentiation and functional categories in a successively bilingual child [PDF]
, 1998 This thesis investigates the formal and functional properties of the linguistic knowledge of a young bilingual child 'Katla' who successively acquires Icelandic (L1, from birth) and English (L2, from age 1:3).
Bohnacker, Ute
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Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.Abstract BACKGROUND The present study investigated the potential health risks of heavy metals (HMs) in the fruits and leaves of mulberry and sour cherry trees exposed to water from Sivas geothermal basin (Turkey). RESULTS The target HMs were ranked according to their hazard index as: Cd < Pb < Zn < Cu < Ni < Mn < Cr. The total hazard index for mulberry
E Işıl Arslan Topal +3 more
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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates
The Economic Journal, EarlyView., 2018 The negative consequences of long‐term exposure to particulate pollution are well established but a number of studies find no effect of short‐term exposure on health outcomes. The high correlation of industrial pollutants complicates the estimation of the impact of individual pollutants on health.
Timothy J. Halliday +2 more
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A History of Icelandic Literature [PDF]
, 1957 Stefán Einarsson covers almost a thousand years of Icelandic literature in tracing the influence of the sagas and eddic poems. The book begins with background on Icelandic literature, outlining its literary roots in Scandinavia. Following this, Einarsson
Einarsson, Stefán
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The European Union (EU) has set ambitious climate goals, aiming to become the first climate‐neutral continent by 2050, with a focus on achieving net‐zero emissions and advancing United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13. A key component of this transition is the role of green technological innovation, the deployment of clean energy ...
Yue Xu +2 more
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On Loanwords of Latin Origin in Contemporary Icelandic [PDF]
, 2014 This article focuses on the Icelandic lexis' history by analysing the loanwords of Latin origin in it. The corpus examined traverses the history of Icelandic through its whole.
Matteo Tarsi +2 more
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