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The typology of Old Norse revisited

Historical Germanic morphosyntax, 2021
Typologically, the Old and Middle Scandinavian languages preserve features lost in Modern Scandinavian (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish), especially zero arguments and inactive constructions.
Lars Heltoft
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Old Norse Mythology and Ideology (and Entertainment)

Old Norse Mythology, 2021
According an argument by Georges Dumézil, Ideological use of the mythology may go back to Indo-European times, and it certainly goes back to Viking and medieval Scandinavia, where a “ruler ideology” can be discerned within it. In early modern Denmark and
John Lindow
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Baldr, Ymir, and the Myth of the First Death in Old Norse Mythology (Part 1)

Folklore
This study examines the myth of the death of the Norse god Baldr in a comparative framework. Scholars working in the fields of comparative mythology and religion have long argued that a myth concerning the sacrificial killing of the first man is ...
Kristen Mills
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Old Norse Mythology as Sacred Narrative

Old Norse Mythology, 2021
This chapter presents a case study of one myth that we have from pictorial sources in the Viking Age, from poems almost certainly composed in the Viking Age, and from thirteenth-century sources, namely the encounter between the god Þórr (Thor) and his ...
John Lindow
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Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

, 2019
In the past few decades, interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a great deal of interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Until the 1980s,
Carol J. Clover, John Lindow
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No Sense of Humour? ‘Humour’ Words in Old Norse

The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology, 2020
The Old Norse language, dialects of which were spoken across Scandinavia in the Middle Ages, has no equivalent of the Modern English umbrella term ‘humour’.
Hannah Burrows
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Fast Goes the Fleeting Time: The Miscellaneous Concepts of Time in Different Old Norse Genres and their Causes

, 2020
This work is concerned with time reckoning and perception in Old Norse culture. Based on an analysis of various prose and poetic works, the author reconstructs the native images of time, as well as their changes in relation to social development, namely ...
K. Králová
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The Name of Thor and the Transmission of Old Norse poetry

Neophilologus: An International Journal of Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature, 2023
Haukur Þorgeirsson
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Children’s Literature and Old Norse Medievalism

2023
This book explores the ways in which contemporary authors respond to and rework key aspects of Old Norse history and viking culture for young twenty-first-century audiences. Why are contemporary authors and audiences so manifestly attracted to the viking past? In what ways do writers respond to Norse sources? How do the narratives they tell reflect our
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Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda

Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 2022
Christopher D. Sapp
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