Potato crisps for squirrel Ratatosk and hiking equipment for the first settler Ingólfur. Reception of old icelandic culture in poems by Þórarinn Eldjárn [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2019 Þórarinn Eldjárn is one of the few contemporary Icelandic poets who regularly address the themes of Old Icelandic literature in their poems, including poems for children.
Olga Markelova
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The perception of Old Norse literature in modern Icelandic children’s literature [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2018 In Icelandic children’s literature of the years 2000−2010, the texts that make use of the subjects of Old Norse literature are not very common, but their importance is undeniable.
Markelova Olga
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Sigurðar saga fóts (The Saga of Sigurðr Foot): A Translation [PDF]
, 2008 This is the first English translation of the short Icelandic romance Sigurðar saga fóts, with an introduction presenting the evidence for its dating and immediate literary context.
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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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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda [PDF]
, 2017 This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in
Reis, Jacob Robert
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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]
, 2008 'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies' uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies ...
Hall, Alaric
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Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]
, 2017 It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
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, 2006 A history of the notion of PROPERHOOD in philosophy and linguistics is given. Two long-standing ideas, (i) that proper names have no sense, and (ii) that they are expressions whose purpose is to refer to individuals, cannot be made to work ...
Coates, Richard
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A Large-Scale Comparison of Historical Text Normalization Systems [PDF]
, 2019 There is no consensus on the state-of-the-art approach to historical text normalization. Many techniques have been proposed, including rule-based methods, distance metrics, character-based statistical machine translation, and neural encoder--decoder ...
Bollmann, Marcel
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Losing One’s Way: Poet as Nomadic Translator in Caroline Bergvall’s “Via” and 'Drift'
Modern Languages OpenThe process of translation generates exciting new possibilities through deep and prolonged engagement with the material of the source text; yet, as Lawrence Venuti has demonstrated, the creative agency that translators bring to the text has often been ...
Gareth Hughes
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