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Sigurðar saga fóts (The Saga of Sigurðr Foot): A Translation [PDF]

, 2008
This is the first English translation of the short Icelandic romance Sigurðar saga fóts, with an introduction presenting the evidence for its dating and immediate literary context.
Hall, ATP, Haukur Þorgeirsson, Beverley, P, Brooks, K, Twomlow, F, Bishop, D, Brogden, L, Clarkson, O, Denholm, A, Denvir, K, Fearn, B, Friis, L, Granata Thorne, V, Gutierrez-Ray, A, Holdsworth, L, Johnson, S, Luboff, A, Matter, E, Metcalf, B, O'Mahoney, L, Varley, D, Veale, H   +21 more
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Fluid Identities and Social Disruption: A Critical Examination of Otherness in the Íslendingaþættir

Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur
This 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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"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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Cinderella in Old Norse Literature

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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Vanapõhja kirjanduse tõlkeloost ja selle tähendusest Eesti kultuurile [PDF]

, 2011
On the Translation History of Old Norse Literature and its Meaning for Estonian ...
Kuldkepp, M
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Effective therapeutic targeting of CTNNB1‐mutant hepatoblastoma with WNTinib

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
WNTinib, a Wnt/CTNNB1 inhibitor, was tested in hepatoblastoma (HB) experimental models. It delayed tumor growth and improved survival in CTNNB1‐mutant in vivo models. In organoids, WNTinib outperformed cisplatin and showed enhanced efficacy in combination therapy, supporting its potential as a targeted treatment for CTNNB1‐mutated HB.
Ugne Balaseviciute, Júlia Huguet‐Pradell, Jordi Abril‐Fornaguera, Albert Gris‐Oliver, Alex Rialdi, Elisa Fernández‐Martínez, Carla Montironi, Vanessa Del Pozo, Peter Houghton, Laura Zanatto, Agavni Mesropian, Ieva Keraite, Swan Thung, Carolina Armengol, Pau Sancho‐Bru, Ernesto Guccione, Roser Pinyol, Josep M. Llovet   +17 more
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Race, Religion and the Medieval Norse Discovery of America

Religions
In 1837, Danish philologist Carl Christian Rafn published Antiquitates Americanæ, which introduced Americans to the Vinland sagas—medieval texts that suggest that Norse explorers “discovered” North America around the turn of the first millennium.
Zachary J. Melton
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Medieval Scandinavian Studies—Whence, Whereto, Why

Humanities, 2022
Medieval Scandinavian Studies started emerging as a discipline in the 19th century, at a time when Old Norse literature had become an important source both for the reconstruction of an alleged Germanic worldview, and the substantiation of national ...
Jan Alexander van Nahl
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Refractory Status Epilepticus Treated With Bilateral Pulvinar Deep Brain Stimulation—A Case Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New‐onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) arises without an identifiable cause or prior epilepsy history, with a 16%–27% mortality rate and significant long‐term neurological sequelae. Neuromodulation such as deep brain stimulation (DBS) targeting the anterior and centromedian thalamic nuclei has shown promise when the traditional ...
Mengxuan Tang, Amerta Bai, Felipe Rodridgues Marques Ferreira, Sandipan Pati, Thaddeus Walczak, Benjamin Miller, Oladi Bentho, Thomas Henry, Ilo Leppik, Minoo Shams, Zhiyi Sha, Zachary Sanger, Theoden I. Netoff, Thomas Lisko, Anant Naik, Robert McGovern III, Sima Patel   +16 more
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Child abandonment as an indicator of Christianization in the Nordic countries

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
In the Nordic countries, child abandonment seems to have been a commonly accepted social tradition until the acceptance of Christianity. When Christian influences reached the Far North, this old practice was gradually criminalized.
Juha Pentikäinen
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