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A multiple profile approach to the palynological reconstruction of Norse landscapes in Greenland's Eastern Settlement [PDF]

open access: yesQuaternary Research, 2014
Acknowledgments The Leverhulme Trust is thanked for financial support. Gordon Cook provided radiocarbon dates. Thanks are also due to Andy McMullen for botanical identifications and assistance in the field, and to Sikuu Motzfeld for hospitality during ...
Edwards, Kevin J   +2 more
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in
Reis, Jacob Robert
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The study of the Christianization of the Nordic countries: some reflections

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
The focus of this paper is some problems that appear in the study of the transition from old Norse religion to Christianity, which requires further reflection.
Ragnhild Finnestad
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The Grammaticalization of the Epistemic Adverb Perhaps in Late Middle and Early Modern English

open access: yesStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2021
Old and Early Middle English did not yet have modal sentential adverbs of low probability. Old Norse did not have such words, either. From the 13th century onwards first epistemic prepositional phrases of Anglo-Norman origin functioning as modal ...
Molencki Rafał
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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology II: Rhyme as an Inherited Device of Old Germanic Verse

open access: yesStudia Metrica et Poetica, 2023
This paper is the second in a three-part series on the distinctive type of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter, argued to have emerged through the metricalization of uses of rhyme within a short line found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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The Warrior and the Cat: A Re-Evaluation of the Roles of Domestic Cats in Viking Age Scandinavia

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2019
The role of cats in Viking Age society is little investigated and has been dominated by uncritical adoptions of medieval mythology. Based on literary sources, the domestic cat is often linked to cultic spheres of female sorcery.
Matthias S. Toplak
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Do Thor and Odin Have Bodies? Superperception and Divine Intervention among the Old Norse Gods

open access: yesReligions, 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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Spor i ord

open access: yesCollegium Medievale, 2023
This article is based on recent research about Irish loanwords to Old Norse, but also a former discussion about the word "gagarr" (dog) and whether it originates in Norse or Gaelic languages.
Anne Lind
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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology I: Overview and Argument

open access: yesStudia Metrica et Poetica, 2023
This paper is the first in a three-part series or tryptic that argues for the Old Germanic origins of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter. This meter requires rhymes on the stressed syllables of two words within a six-position line, irrespective of ...
Frog
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