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Scandinavian Journal of History, 2022 The Old English account known as Ohthere’s Voyage preserves a ninth-century description of ‘Norðmannaland’ (the land of the Northmen) given by Ohthere, a sailor from northern Norway, at the court of Alfred the Great.
Ben Allport
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Old Norse Studies and Collective Memory: An Introduction
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2021 : This special issue of Scandinavian-Canadian Studies / Études scandinaves au Canada is the result of a number of sessions organized by guest editors Yoav Tirosh and Simon Nygaard for the 2018 International Medieval Congress (IMC) at Leeds and ...
S. Nygaard, Yoav Tirosh
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Named-Entity Dataset for Medieval Latin, Middle High German and Old Norse
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2021 We present a dataset of named entities in three languages: Medieval Latin, Middle High German and Old Norse. The dataset, containing proper nouns of persons and places, was originally created to extract characters from three related medieval texts. Since
Clément Besnier, William Mattingly
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The Prosimetrum of Old Norse Historiography – Looking for Parallels
Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2022 The present paper charts the development of the prosimetrum in the Old Norse kings' sagas. An introductory section illustrates the two main kinds of poetic citations found in the kings' sagas and presents the stated rationale for the inclusion of poetry ...
Jonas Wellendorf
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Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2021 Three early medieval Germanic languages—Old English, Old High German, and Old Norse—contain related words for a supernatural female being: mære in Old English, mara in Old Norse, and mahr in Old High German.1 Their shared root is the Indo-European *mer ...
Caroline R. Batten
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The Role of Rulers in the Winding Up of the Old Norse Religion
Numen, 2021 It is a common opinion in research that the Scandinavians changed religion during the second half of the Viking Age, that is, ca. 950–1050/1100 CE. During this period, Christianity replaced the Old Norse religion.
Olof Sundqvist
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Perspectives on Digital Catalogs and Textual Networks of Old Norse Literature
Manuscript Studies, 2021 :Taking its point of departure in the network analysis of manuscript contexts of Old Norse texts, based on data collected from digital catalogs of Nordic manuscripts, this article examines the possibilities and challenges of the digital manuscript ...
K. Kapitan
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Latin and Hebrew Analogues to The Old Norse Leek Riddle
Medieval Worlds, 2021 It has been thought that of the forty or so surviving Old Norse riddles, only two have close parallels in the wider international riddle tradition. This note shows, however, that the riddle on the leek in the probably thirteenth-century Heiðreks saga ...
A. Hall
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How inaccurate rhymes reveal Old Norse vowel phonemes
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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Guðbrandur Vigfússon as an editor of Old Norse-Icelandic literature [PDF]
, 2016 Guðbrandur Vigfússon, an Icelander born in Galtardalur, Dalasýsla, was without doubt one of the most influential scholars of Old Norse studies of his day.
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