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Integrating analog citations into an online dictionary

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2019
In this paper, I discuss A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) and the principles behind its extensive archive of citations and how this archive has evolved to its current state as a component of an online dictionary.
Ellert Thor Johannsson
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Kulturasetro i Danmark?

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
: Inspired by the concept of Cultural Christianity, we investigate if something like Cultural Asatru exists in Denmark. A Cultural Asatru person may not believe in or worship the Old Norse gods, but may still identify with a pre-Christian heritage ...
Uffe Schjødt, Lauritz H. Petersen, Lea M. Christensen, Sidsel Marie Bjerregaard, Christian Qvortrup   +4 more
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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

Studia 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 study of the Christianization of the Nordic countries: some reflections

Scripta 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 Warrior and the Cat: A Re-Evaluation of the Roles of Domestic Cats in Viking Age Scandinavia

Current 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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Spor i ord

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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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology I: Overview and Argument

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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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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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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Revisiting the Norse on the Western Isles from a Landscape Perspective

Viking, 2021
Historically the research on the relationship between the Norse and Pictish period population of the Western Isles has largely focused on place-name evidence, due to the prevalence of Old Norse place names over Pictish period ones and a scant ...
Joseph Thomas Ryder
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