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Ritual and Hierarchy in Old Norse Mythology
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : Within Old Norse mythological narratives, the presence or absence of ritual establishes hierarchy. As exemplified in death ritual, ritual orders the two major classes of mythological beings, placing the Æsir (gods) above the jǫtnar (“giants”).
John Lindow
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The Old Norse goði and his ring
Primitive Tider, 2023 The Old Norse goði and his ...
Olof Sundqvist
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Emotional Religiosity and Religious Happiness in Old Norse Literature and Culture
Arkiv för nordisk filologiThe main aim of this article is to investigate whether and how the traditional Christian theological premise that “God is Happiness” was adapted to the social and ideological norms and aesthetics of Old Norse literature and culture.
S. Eriksen
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Hlǫðskviða and the Rise of the Old Norse Legendary Sagas
Neophilologus: An International Journal of Modern and Mediaeval Language and LiteratureHlǫðskviða or “The Battle of the Goths and the Huns” is the most famous of the poems contained in the Old Norse legendary sagas, being generally held to belong to the earliest Old Norse poems.
Mikael Males
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Filologia GermanicaThe aim of this analysis is to highlight the connection between early Old Nordic *bākn ‘fire beacon’ and pre-Old Frisian *bākən ‘id.’ from Germanic *baukna-.
Andrea Maini
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Magical Music in Old Norse Literature
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996 No society ever existed without performing music, and most cultures display many variants of music. Music also played and still plays an important part in different religious rites. From the days of yore, music has been intimately connected with the cult,
Britt-Mari Näsström
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Revisiting the Norse on the Western Isles from a Landscape Perspective
Viking, 2021 Historically the research on the relationship between the Norse and Pictish period population of the Western Isles has largely focused on place-name evidence, due to the prevalence of Old Norse place names over Pictish period ones and a scant ...
Joseph Thomas Ryder
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Loan verb accommodation: a comparison of Old Norse and French in Middle English
English Language and LinguisticsRecent research shows that, even under direct insertion, loan verbs are subject to constraints: for instance, they enter non-finite categories more readily than finite categories.
E. W.JULIAN +4 more
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Favorable clinical course after early-intensive immunotherapy for new-onset refractory status epilepticus [PDF]
Journal of Neurocritical Care, 2020 Background New-onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) refers to the newly established concept of a disease characterized by refractory status epilepticus without an identifiable etiology. Recent reports have indicated the importance of immunotherapy
Hyun-Sung Kim +6 more
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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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