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Collegium 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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Studia 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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The Old Norse goði and his ring
Primitive Tider, 2023 The Old Norse goði and his ...
Olof Sundqvist
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Der Runenstein von Tanum - ein religionsgeschichtliches Denkmal aus urnordischer Zeit
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990 The article offers a critical analysis of the inscriptions on three runic stones: the Rök stone from the early Viking Era (800-820), the stone from Stentoften (550-580/699) and the stone from Tanum (200-500).
Ottar Grønvik
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Prototypes and structures in eddic poetry [PDF]
, 2017 Seiichi Suzuki, The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry: Common Germanic Inheritance and North Germanic Innovation (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Band 86). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014.
Árnason, Kristján
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The Earth as Body in Old Norse
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : This article investigates two of three main ways outlined by Snorri Sturlusson in Gylfaginning in which Old Norse poets might refer to the earth in their poetry: By reference to the myth of the killing of Ymir as well as by reference to the immediate ...
John Mckinnell
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Ritual and Hierarchy in Old Norse Mythology
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : Within Old Norse mythological narratives, the presence or absence of ritual establishes hierarchy. As exemplified in death ritual, ritual orders the two major classes of mythological beings, placing the Æsir (gods) above the jǫtnar (“giants”).
John Lindow
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Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon : an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding [PDF]
, 2017 Acknowledgements We would like to thank Laura Whitehouse, John Carman, Oliver Grimm, Julie Lund, Bjørnar Olsen, two anonymous reviewers, and the editor for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper.
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Filologia GermanicaThe aim of this analysis is to highlight the connection between early Old Nordic *bākn ‘fire beacon’ and pre-Old Frisian *bākən ‘id.’ from Germanic *baukna-.
Andrea Maini
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The perception of Old Norse literature in modern Icelandic children’s literature [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2018 In Icelandic children’s literature of the years 2000−2010, the texts that make use of the subjects of Old Norse literature are not very common, but their importance is undeniable.
Markelova Olga
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