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Magical Music in Old Norse Literature
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996 No society ever existed without performing music, and most cultures display many variants of music. Music also played and still plays an important part in different religious rites. From the days of yore, music has been intimately connected with the cult,
Britt-Mari Näsström
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The Sami People in Old Norse Literature
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 1999 Hermann Pálsson
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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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Revenants in Old Norse literature as embodied memory
Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2020 Beings that come from the past into the present could be an example par excellence for memory studies. Revenants are an outstanding phenomenon of Old Norse literature that has been researched from many points of view: e.g.
Marie Novotná
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Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2023 Book review of The Bearded Bride: A Critical Edition of Þrymlur.
Andrew McGillivray
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Kulturella Perspektiv, 2022 The sagas of Icelanders contain a great wealth of personal names both of historical and fictional nature. Personal names function both as identifiers for individuals but also evoke associations that supersede the name’s lexical or identifying meaning ...
Solveig Bollig
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Marie Novotná: Pojetí těla ve staroseverské literatuře
Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2020 Book review: Marie Novotná: Pojetí těla ve staroseverské literatuře. Praha: Herrmann & synové, 2019, 194 pages. (The Concept of the Body in Old Norse Literature)
Lucie Korecká
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Guðbrandur Vigfússon as an editor of Old Norse-Icelandic literature [PDF]
, 2016 Guðbrandur Vigfússon, an Icelander born in Galtardalur, Dalasýsla, was without doubt one of the most influential scholars of Old Norse studies of his day.
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda [PDF]
, 2017 This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in
Reis, Jacob Robert
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