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Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga. [PDF]
iScienceSummary The potential of ancient DNA analyses to provide independent sources of information about events in the historical record remains to be demonstrated.
Ellegaard MR +19 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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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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How inaccurate rhymes reveal Old Norse vowel phonemes [PDF]
Maal og Minne, 2023 This article discusses so-called inaccurate rhymes in Old Norse dróttkvætt poetry and their bearing on the phoneme structure of Old Norse. Inaccurate rhymes between /ǫ/ and /a/ do occur, but were to some extent avoided in Old Norse poems in the eleventh ...
Þorgeir Sigurðsson
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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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'Shadow' and paradoxes of darkness in Old English and Old Norse poetic language [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis confronts, explores, and attempts to meaningfully interpret a surprising nexus of stimulating cruces and paradoxes in Old English poetry and prose and Old Norse skaldic and Eddic poetry.
Missuno, Filip
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Revenants in Old Norse literature as embodied memory
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2020 Beings that come from the past into the present could be an example par excellence for memory studies. Revenants are an outstanding phenomenon of Old Norse literature that has been researched from many points of view: e.g.
Marie Novotná
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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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Old Norse and Germanic Religion
, 2011 The article is a critical overview of archaeological research on Old Norse and Germanic ...
Andrén, Anders,
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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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