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A comparison of Richard Wagner's Der ring des Nibelungen and William Morris's Sigurd the volsung [PDF]
, 1993 The thesis compares the text of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen with the epic poem Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris. Chapter I begins with an outline of the question under discussion, namely, whether Sigurd the Volsung could have been written as
Ennis, Jane Susanna
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract The world of Colombian gaited horses, or cultura caballista (horse‐riding culture), is often linked with uribismo, the right‐wing identity associated with former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Ethnographic fieldwork in conflict‐torn Antioquia reveals how horse‐human practices of training, breeding, and competition cultivate orientations toward ...
Gwen Burnyeat
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Mythic transformations: tree symbolism in the Norse plantation [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis explores tree symbolism as interpreted from a selection of Old Norse poetic and prose mythological sources. The primary poetic sources include the Eddic poems Vǫluspá, Hávamál, Grímnismál, Vafþrúðnismál, Lokasenna and Baldrs draumur. Selected
McGillivray, Andrew
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Loanwords and native words in Old and Middle Icelandic (12th c.-1550) [PDF]
, 2020 This thesis addresses the coexistence and interplay of loanwords and their corresponding endogenous synonyms during the Old and Middle Icelandic period (12th c.–1550), i.e.
Tarsi, Matteo
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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To assess the cost‐effectiveness of including varicella vaccination in the Swedish national vaccination programme for children together with the added impact of catch‐up vaccination of susceptible older children. Methods An epidemiological transmission model was used to assess the cost‐effectiveness of a two‐dose national varicella ...
Frida Kasteng +5 more
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Between nature and culture: animals and humans in Old Norse literature [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis demonstrates how animals and humans are interconnected in Old Norse literature. The two categories are both constructed and challenged in a variety of ways, depending on the textual genre and animal species.
Bourns, Timothy, Timothy Bourns
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Lodge moraines: a common yet underreported end‐moraine type—a review
Boreas, EarlyView.Lodge moraines are a distinct genetic type of end moraine formed by submarginal accretion of subglacial till; they are some of the largest end moraines in the world. Although underreported in the literature, they are of equal importance to push, dump and hummocky end moraines. End moraines are formed at glacier ice margins and show the extent of former
Mark D. Johnson +11 more
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The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition (PDF) [PDF]
, 2023 This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda.
Edward Pettit (18763123)
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On the dative singular -u ending in monosyllabic strong feminine ō-stem substantives in Old Icelandic: An overview and longitudinal study [PDF]
, 2018 The dative singular ending form of monosyllabic strong feminine ō-stem substantives in Modern Icelandic is typically a null, or zero, ending, where there was at a much earlier stage a -u ending.
Miller, Elise, 1993-
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The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition (XML) [PDF]
, 2023 This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda.
Edward Pettit (18763123)
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