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The typology of Old Norse revisited
Historical Germanic morphosyntax, 2021Typologically, 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, 2021According 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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Old Norse Mythology as Sacred Narrative
Old Norse Mythology, 2021This 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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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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Baldr, Ymir, and the Myth of the First Death in Old Norse Mythology (Part 1)
FolkloreThis 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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The Leipzig-Jakarta list as a means to test Old English / Old Norse mutual intelligibility
, 2020The use of basic word lists has long been common in the fields of second language acquisition and language typology. The application to the study of mutual intelligibility between closely related languages on the other hand has never gained much traction.
J. Keller
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No Sense of Humour? ‘Humour’ Words in Old Norse
The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology, 2020The 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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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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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, 2023Haukur Þorgeirsson
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Evergreen ash: ecology and catastrophe in old Norse myth and literature
Green Letters. Studies in Ecocriticism, 2020Across Europe, ash trees are dying from infection by the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus (also known as Chalara fraxinea).
M. Haggith
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