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Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might

, 2011
Myths of gods, legends of battles, and folktales of magic abound in the heroic narratives of the Middle Ages. Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might describes how Medieval heroes were developed from a variety of source ...
Fee, Christopher R.
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Can artificial intelligence-assisted auscultation become the Heimdallr for diagnosing congenital heart disease? [PDF]

Eur Heart J Digit Health, 2021
Ou Y.
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Death, memory and material culture: Catalytic commemoration and the cremated dead [PDF]

, 2013
This is the author's version of a book chapter published in The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of death and burial by Oxford University Press ...
Williams, Howard
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Mapping Medievalism: An Indigenous Political Perspective [PDF]

, 2011
Review of Kathryn Brush (ed.), Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier, London Ontario Canada: Museum London and the McIntosh Gallery, 2010. Mapping Medievalism, a collection of essays written by a professor and nine graduate students, is an ...
Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Warren Bernauer
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Children of Baldur: Understanding the Construction of Masculinity within Göthicism and the Manhem Society

Correspondences, 2022
The article focuses on how a nineteenth-century Swedish nationalistic movement, Göthicism, understood masculinity. The primary example used is Manhemsförbundet (the Manhem Society), an initiatory and educational organization active between 1815–1823 ...
Fredrik Gregorius
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Resistance as the Creation of a ‘Natural Frontier': the Language of 19th-Century Scandinavism (1839-1867) [PDF]

, 2010
www.cliohres.netThis contribution considers the construction of a Scandinavian identity during the mid-19th century within the academic milieu of Christiania (Oslo), Copenhagen, Lund and Uppsala, in a context where National Romanticist ideas spread ...
Larguèche, Aladin
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Die germanische Mythosgestalt *Askiz in der Germania von Cornelius Tacitus und in altnordischen Quellen

Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2016
The work by Publius Cornelius Tacitus entitled De origine et situ Germanorum is an inexhaustible source of knowledge about ancient Germanic peoples, their culture, beliefs and even their mythology.
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, Elwira Kaczyńska   +1 more
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Bilateral Self-enucleation of the Eyes: Case Report and Literature Review. [PDF]

J West Afr Coll Surg, 2023
Nwosu SNN, Nwosu VO, Akudinobi CU, Onyiaorah AA, Uba-Obiano CU.   +4 more
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“Little Glory Will It Bring You To Break My Short Bones“

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
This paper explores representations of dvergar (sing. dvergr) in medieval Icelandic narrative sources to ascertain to what extent dvergar were associated with dwarfism and how these links developed over time.
Alice Bower
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“Love … armed to the teeth”

Edda
Icelandic poet Gerður Kristný’s Blóðhófnir (2010) retells the myth of the god Freyr, his servant Skírnir, and the giantess Gerðr in the words of the giantess alone. In the myth, Freyr sends Skírnir to seduce Gerðr on his behalf. The mission is successful,
Christopher Crocker
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