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Cinderella in Old Norse Literature [PDF]
Folklore, 2018 Although ATU 510A, ‘Cinderella’, is known to have ancient origins, it was widely thought that the ash-name did not become a feature of the tale type until Giambattista Basile’s ‘La Gatta cenerentola’ (The Ashy Cat) in the seventeenth century. However, it is preceded in this regard by a little-known fourteenth-century Icelandic romance, Vilmundar saga ...
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Werewolves in old Norse-Icelandic literature [PDF]
, 2020 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 ljóð and a short episode in Konungs skuggsjá.
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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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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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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Þingeyrar Abbey in Northern Iceland: A Benedictine Powerhouse of Cultural Heritage
Religions, 2021 Þingeyrar Abbey was founded in 1133 and dissolved in the wake of the Lutheran Reformation (1550), to virtually disappear with time from the face of the earth.
Gottskálk Jensson
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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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Comparison of Old Norse and Proto-Norse Noun Declension [PDF]
, 2012 Comparison of Old Norse and Proto-Norse Noun Declension The purpose of this thesis is to follow the development of noun declensions from Proto-Norse to the Old Norse (Old Icelandic) language.
Šimeček, David
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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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