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The Political Symbolism of Ants and Bees in Old Norse Sources

Collegium Medievale, 2020
In this article I discuss the political themes attached to the eusocial creatures, specifically ants and bees, in Old Norse sources. I consider the situation of Old Norse as a transnational literature, encompassing one country that lacked ants and bees ...
Richard Cole
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North Atlantic marine ¹⁴C reservoir effects: implications for late-Holocene chronological studies [PDF]

, 2009
We investigated surface ocean–atmosphere 14C offsets for the later Holocene at eight locations in the eastern North Atlantic. This resulted in 11 new ΔR assessments for the west coast of Ireland, the Outer Hebrides, the north coast of the Scottish ...
A.J. Dugmore, Aitken, Ascough, Ascough, Ascough, Ascough, Ascough, Ashmore, Austin, Barrett, Broecker, Bronk Ramsey, Bronk Ramsey, Campin, Church, Culleton, Dugmore, Dye, Eiríksson, Eiríksson, Forman, G.T. Cook, Grove, Harkness, Heier-Neilsen, Hughen, Jiang, Jones, Knight, Kovanen, Lamb, Mangerud, McGovern, McKay, Mook, P.L. Ascough, Paull, Reimer, Reimer, Siani, Siani, Slota, Southon, Spiker, Stuiver, Stuiver, Stuiver, Ulm, Vandeputte, Waelbroeck, Ward, Yoneda   +51 more
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What do they talk about “in fair words” in Old Norse-Icelandic literature?

Шаги
The paper analyses the use of the paroemia at mæla fagrt ok hyggja flátt (to speak fairly and to think falsely) in the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, focusing both on the paroemia and its derivative — the representation of the characters’ eloquence
D. S. Glebova
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On the Etymology of Adel [PDF]

, 2009
A light-hearted tour of the historiography of the etymology of Adel, a parish in North Leeds, resisting the twentieth-century concensus of Old English adela (‘filth, dirt, dirty place; foul filth; bilge-water’ and possibly even ‘sewer, privy’) in favour ...
Hall, Alaric
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Objects and Agency in the Medieval North: The Case of Old Norse Magic Swords

, 2020
Recent decades have seen a resurgence of interest among historians and archaeologists in reassessing trade networks and cross-cultural exchanges between medieval Scandinavia and circum-Baltic regions, particularly the West Slavic area of what is today ...
Miriam Mayburd
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Listening to young children with disabilities: Experiences of quality in mainstream primary education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract All children should have access to quality education through a child‐centred pedagogy. An inclusive, child‐centred pedagogy uses a strength‐based view of children that recognises each child as unique and competent, providing children with multiple opportunities to explore and learn at their own pace.
Katherine Gulliver
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Standards in Digital Editions of Old Norse Prose

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
This paper provides an overview over the authors ongoing PhD-research project at the University of Oslo, which aims to contribute to ongoing efforts to transition the field of Old Norse philology into the age of digital humanities by providing a ...
Sebastian Pohland
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Animals of Sacrifice: Animals and the Blót in the Old Norse Sources and Ritual Depositions of Bones from Archaeological Sites

Myth, Materiality and Lived Religion: In Merovingian and Viking Scandinavia, 2019
In the practice of Old Norse religion, animals seem to have played an important role.1 Both the written sources and the archaeological record indicate that the sacrifice of animals played a significant part in the blót, the Old Norse act of sacrifice. At
Ola Magnell, SE Statens Historiska Museer   +1 more
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How can welfare regime and production regime theories explain differences in schools’ ability grouping policies? A comparative study using the PISA school survey

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg, Girma Berhanu, Lena Fridlund   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fragments of the past: how to study old Norse religion

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1999
The state of the sources of the Old Norse religions presents a great problem. Most of them were written down two hundred or even three hundred years after the Christianization of the North, based on an oral tradition going back to the pre-Christian ages.
Britt-Mari Näsström
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