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Changes in hemodynamics and tissue oxygenation saturation in the brain and skeletal muscle induced by speech therapy - a near-infrared spectroscopy study. [PDF]
Arts speech therapy (AST) is a therapeutic method within complementary medicine and has been practiced for decades for various medical conditions. It comprises listening and the recitation of different forms of speech exercises under the guidance of a licensed speech therapist.
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Manuscript Variation in “Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks Konungs” [PDF]
The main aim of the article is to refute the view that “The Lay of Hervör” (“Hervararkviða”) represents a late interpolation in the text of “The Saga of Hervör and King Heidrek the Wise” and to give arguments against the hypothesis that the female ...
Inna G. Matyushina
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A ‘Palimpestuous’ Reading of Lisa Strøme’s The Strawberry Girl [PDF]
This reading of Lisa Strømme’s debut novel The Strawberry Girl (2016) is informed by Gérard Genette’s approach to literature as ”hypertextual,” by which the literary theorist means that any text evokes “some other literary work” (Palimpsests ...
Dana Bădulescu
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Gerður Kristný Guðjónsdóttir: „Poles“ (2019) [PDF]
This publication contains selected translations into Russian from the book The Poles (Heimskaut, 2019) by Gerður Kristný Guðjónsdóttur, the contemporary Icelandic poet. Allusions to literary and historical plots in this book are of considerable interest.
Olga Markelova
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: In the Poetic Edda, a multitude of understandings and ideas exist concerning the Otherworldly collective known as the álfar (Old Norse pl., sg. álfr). While the understandings are indeed many, they are not arbitrary.
Simon Nygaard
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The Bible of Hermann of Valenciennes and the Icelandic Biblical Paraphrase Lily [PDF]
The article presents the results of a comparative textual analysis of the Bible of Herman de Valenciennes (end of the 12th c.) and Lily, an anonymous Icelandic biblical paraphrase (the first half of the 14th c).
Nataliia L. Ogurechnikova
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This essay argues that a negative hermeneutics, i.e., a hermeneutics that takes its starting point from the experience of gaps, failures, and limits, is a suitable lens for the study of mysticism. It uses the concept of travail of the negative, which focuses on the dynamics of a continuous ‘unsaying’ and ‘subverting’ of traditional expressions of faith
Edda Wolff
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The Baptism of an Indian Juggler: Event and Narrative in the Swedish Press, 1827–1852
In 1827, an Indian juggler named Mooty Madua Samme converted to Christianity in Stockholm, Sweden. This historical event got much attention in the press at the time – as did his succeeding marriage to a Swedish woman named Erica – and was celebrated as a victory for the Evangelical Lutheran faith.
Jens Carlesson Magalhães +1 more
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Progression and Return in Västanå Theatre’s Retelling of the Edda (2019)
In 2019, Västanå Theatre staged Jon Fosse’s Edda, a theatrical adaptation of myths from the Poetic Edda. This essay focuses on a number of formal devices used to adapt the Norse myths at Västanå, the dumb show convention perhaps offering the most ...
Anna Swärdh
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Icelandic Literature in the U.S.: On the Question of National Borders in Literature [PDF]
Literature has been central to Icelandic culture in the history of the nation. Icelandic immigrants in the U.S. created an original literature in their native tongue that, on the one hand, continued a rich Icelandic literary tradition going back to sagas
Andrey V. Korovin
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