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Since ancient times celestial thunder gods have been a familiar feature in mythologies throughout the Indo-European language area. Their Irish counterpart, the Dagda, is a major personage at the centre of the Mythological Cycle, and his possible ...
John Shaw
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Strathconon, Scatwell and the Mackenzies in the Written Record c. 1463-c.1700 [PDF]
Although some writers have considered the earlier history of Ross, these studies tend to focus on dynastic and political events and not much is know about the internal workings of Ross-shire far less Strathconon in the historical record prior to the end ...
Maccoinnich, Aonghas
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Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS [PDF]
This is a proposal to add several Latin characters to the international character encoding standard Unicode. These additions were published in Unicode Standard version 5.1 in March 2008.
Baker, Peter +8 more
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The Germanic weak preterit [PDF]
The main difficulty with the Germanic weak preterit is that one cannot endeavor an explanation of its origin without taking into account almost every aspect of the historical phonology and morphology of the Germanic languages.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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State College Times, April 15, 1932 [PDF]
Volume 20, Issue 47https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/12734/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Religion, Alfar and Dvergar [PDF]
En este artículo apuntamos a explorar la conexión entre dos tipos de entidades míticas colectivas, los álfar y los dvergar. Ponderamos críticamente la fiabilidad de las distintas fuentes y analizamos el modo en que esos seres son presentados en algunos ...
Barreiro, Santiago Francisco
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Thorkelin y el Beowulf / Thorkelin and Beowulf [PDF]
An edition and translation of an unpublished essay by Jorge Luis Borges on the modern rediscovery of the Beowulf manuscript.
Joseph Stadolnik
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NAUTICAL TERMINOLOGY IN DANISH SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DISCOURSE
The article focuses on an understudied phenomenon, Danish idioms and sayings that originate from seafaring and have long since have been adopted into everyday use and have found their way into the language of mass media.
Yu. M. Avakova
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Review: Gender shifts in the history of English. Anne Curzan.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.pp. 223 + xii. [PDF]
Herbert Schendl (2001:9) defines ‘the study of ongoing changes in a language’ as one of the fundamental goals of historical linguistics. Curzan’s book, which examines the historical development of the English gender system, is a work noteworthy not ...
Kádár, Daniel Z.
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