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Do Thor and Odin Have Bodies? Superperception and Divine Intervention among the Old Norse Gods
Religions, 2019 In Old Norse mythology, gods like Freyja, Odin, and Thor are usually characterized as human-like creatures: they walk and ride animals, eat, grow old, and even die.
Declan Taggart
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Humanities, 2020 Many Humanities scholars seem to have become increasingly pessimistic due to a lack of success in their efforts to be recognized as a serious player next to their science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) colleagues.
Jan Alexander van Nahl
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Old Norse Nicknames: Origins and Terminology
Names, 2019 Nicknames, which occur in all cultures and time periods, play a unique role in highlighting identity. The pool of first names has always been relatively limited, thus most people were identified by their nicknames, especially before surnames became ...
Paul R. Peterson
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Folia Linguistica, 2019 The semantic range of ditransitive verbs in Modern English has been at the center of linguistic attention ever since the pioneering work of Pinker (1989. Learnability and cognition: The acquisition of argument structure. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press).
Juan G. Vázquez-González +1 more
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Digital Research in Old Norse Studies: Challenges, Solutions, and Trends in Digital Old Norse Studies [PDF]
NORDEUROPAforum - Zeitschrift für Kulturstudien, 2023 The workshop »Digital Research in Old Norse Studies: Data Management and Infrastructure Needs« was held at the University of Basel from 5th to 8th October 2022, bringing together renowned experts in Digital Old Norse Studies and research institutions to ...
Balduin Landolt +4 more
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Integrating TEI/XML Text with Semantic Lexicographic Data
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2021 Traditional excerption-based historical dictionaries often provide a very detailed semantic analysis of a high proportion of words in the corpora they cover.
Tarrin Wills +2 more
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Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2021 In this article we discuss the evolution of data collection and use in the context of A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP), which is a dictionary covering the medieval language of Iceland and Norway.
Ellert Thor Johannsson +2 more
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Estructuras comparativas intensivas en la Edad Media: el adjetivo checo ‘černý’ y el nórdico antiguo ‘svartr’ en comparación con el adjetivo español ‘negro’ [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2022 In this article, we study the intensive comparative structures applied to the adjective negro (‘black’) in medieval Spanish, in comparison with the homologous structures in medieval Czech (adjective černý) and Old Norse (adjective svartr). We present and
Xavier Blanco +2 more
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Textual criticism and Old Norse philology
Studia Neophilologica, 2023 Old Norse editors typically apply the principles of textual criticism with moderation, mainly correcting obvious errors. The exception is poetry, where the introduction of variant readings and emendations is often necessary.
Mikael Males
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Creative practice as research in Old Norse-Icelandic studies: Ancillary characters as storytellers
postmedieval, 2023 This article is a discussion between two writer-academics about projects that re-imagined medieval Icelandic sagas from the perspectives of female characters in these works, and in ways that adopted conventions of interiority and point of view associated
Kári Gíslason, Lisa Bennett
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