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Fragments of the past: how to study old Norse religion

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1999
The state of the sources of the Old Norse religions presents a great problem. Most of them were written down two hundred or even three hundred years after the Christianization of the North, based on an oral tradition going back to the pre-Christian ages.
Britt-Mari Näsström
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Parental involvement and engagement during COVID‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Valuing parental engagement, as part of home–school collaboration, can benefit children's learning. This article focuses on parents and school‐based staff's (N = 120) experiences of children's learning occurring at home during the COVID‐19 lockdowns (2020–2021), both school‐mandated and other learning activities.
Ashley Brett, Bonny L. Hartley, Deborah Wallace, Adewale Magaji, Lorraine Smith, Rachel Wolfendale   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Standards in Digital Editions of Old Norse Prose

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
This paper provides an overview over the authors ongoing PhD-research project at the University of Oslo, which aims to contribute to ongoing efforts to transition the field of Old Norse philology into the age of digital humanities by providing a ...
Sebastian Pohland
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Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has become a critical threat to wildlife, shifting from a seasonal epizootic to a persistent, year‐round panzootic with global consequences. Here, we summarise the origin, evolutionary mechanisms, and expanding host range of the current H5N1 virus (clade 2.3.4.4b) and assess its impact on wildlife. Over
Ulrich Knief, Sandra Bouwhuis, Anja Globig, Anne Günther, Wouter Courtens   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose - ONP (ELEXIS)

, 2021
Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. The Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) is an online dictionary containing over 50,000 words. The headwords are in Old Norse, while the definitions are in Danish and/or English.
Sigurðardóttir, Aldís, Sanders, Christopher, Battista, Simonetta, Jóhannsson, Ellert Þór, Degnbol, Helle, Ellyton, Pernille, Rode, Eva, Lindholm, Johnny, Wills, Tarrin, Arvidsson, Maria, E. Knirk, James, Speed Kjeldsen, Alex, Helgadóttir, Þorbjörg, Jacobsen, Bent Chr.   +13 more
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The costs of extra‐pair behaviours in birds

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Extra‐pair behaviours – reproductive behaviours, including those related to copulation and paternity of offspring, amongst animals outside of a social pair bond – have long intrigued behavioural ecologists, particularly from the female animal's perspective.
Jørgen S. Søraker, Jamie Dunning
wiley   +1 more source

Formes de mystique dans le Nord préchrétien

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1970
In this paper, the author explores mysticism found in a Nordic context, exemplified by different forms of mystic experiences in old Norse religion described in old Scandinavian poetry and literature.
Åke Ström
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green Entrepreneurship Research: A Review of the Domain and Future Research Agenda

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examined the evolving landscape of green entrepreneurship (GE) research through a comprehensive analysis that combined bibliometric and systematic literature reviews. Analysis of 88 articles retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) mapped the research trajectory, identifying key authors, journals and research themes.
Clavis Nwehfor Fubah, Jonathan Mukiza Kansheba, Mutaju Isaack Marobhe, Gaye Acikdilli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Studies in the Transmission and Reception of Old Norse Literature: The Hyperborean Muse in European Culture

, 2016
The compelling world of the Vikings and their descendants, preserved in the sagas, poetry, and mythology of medieval Iceland, has been an important source of inspiration to artists and writers across Europe, as well as to scholars devoted to editing and ...
QUINN, Judy, CIPOLLA, Maria Adele
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