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'Shadow' and paradoxes of darkness in Old English and Old Norse poetic language [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis confronts, explores, and attempts to meaningfully interpret a surprising nexus of stimulating cruces and paradoxes in Old English poetry and prose and Old Norse skaldic and Eddic poetry.
Missuno, Filip
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Werewolves in old Norse-Icelandic literature [PDF]
, 2021 This thesis investigates ten Old Norse-Icelandic werewolf texts: Vǫlsunga saga, Gibbons saga, Sigrgarðs saga frækna, Sigrgarðs saga ok Valbrands, Ála flekks saga, Úlfhams rímur, Tiodielis saga, Jóns saga leikara, and, on the Norwegian side, Bisclaretz ...
Su, Minjie
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð +3 more
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Norse settlement in the Inner Hebrides ca. 800-1300; with special reference to the islands of Mull, Coll and Tiree [PDF]
, 2012 The thesis aims to elucidate the form, extent and chronological development of Norse colonial settlement in the Inner Hebridean islands of Mull, Coll, Thee and Lismore in the period ca 800-1300.
Johnston, Anne R.
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Manuscript and Text Cultures, 2023 The Karlevi runestone, on the island of Öland, off the south-east coast of Sweden, is inscribed with the only known full stanza of Old Norse skaldic verse in Viking Age runes (that is, from approximately AD 750–1100). It is generally dated to the end of
Heather O'Donoghue
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BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 Recommendations for clinical and molecular identification of LS, surgical and endoscopic management of LS‐associated colorectal cancer and preventive measures for cancer were produced. The emphasis was on surgical and gastroenterological aspects of the cancer spectrum.
T. T. Seppälä +18 more
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Fluid Identities and Social Disruption: A Critical Examination of Otherness in the Íslendingaþættir
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kulturThis article explores the concept of Otherness in two íslendingaþættir: Þórhalls þáttr knapps and Auðunar þáttr vestfirska. By analysing the protagonists’ social behaviour and interactions within the context of societal and situational shifts, this ...
Solveig Bollig
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Textually Invisible? Emporia on the Southern Shore of the Baltic in Scandinavian Medieval Sources
Studia Maritima, 2023 The present study focuses on early medieval trading places, so-called emporia, along the south- ern Baltic coast in today’s territories of Schleswig, Mecklenburg, and Pomorze, and their prominence in Old Norse literature.
Carina Damm
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"How Do You Know If It Is Love or Lust?" On Gender, Status, and Violence in Old Norse Literature
Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2017 This article examines attitudes towards behaviour relating to women within Old Norse literature, focusing both on chivalric romances (translated and original, the riddarasögur) and the legendary sagas (fornaldarsögur), texts that were mostly written in ...
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
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“Ór franzeisu í norrænu” The transmission of Chrétien de Troyes’ Arthurian romances to old Norse literature [PDF]
, 2007 The present dissertation examines the riddarasogur based on the Arthurian romances by Chrétien de Troyes: Ívens saga, Erex saga, Parcevals saga and Valvens þáttr.
Lorenz, Christine
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