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The Germanic Heldenlied and the Poetic Edda : Speculations on Preliterary History [PDF]

open access: yesOral Tradition, 2004
One of the proudest inventions of German scholarship in the nineteenth century was the Heldenlied, the heroic song, which was seen by scholars as the main conduit of Germanic heroic legend from the Period of Migrations to the time of their being written ...
Edward R. Haymes
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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]

open access: yesScientificWorldJournal, 2011
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.
Wolf U   +4 more
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Old Norse Heimr ʻWorldʼ and its Toponymic Derivatives in the Poetic Edda

open access: yesВопросы ономастики
The article examines the mythopoetic concept of the ‘world’ (Old Norse heimr) and its derivatives — toponyms with the suffix -heimr in the Poetic Edda.
Tatyana V. Toporova
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Progression and Return in Västanå Theatre’s Retelling of the Edda (2019)

open access: yesNordic Journal of English Studies, 2020
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
exaly   +3 more sources

Manuscript Variation in “Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks Konungs” [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

A ‘Palimpestuous’ Reading of Lisa Strøme’s The Strawberry Girl [PDF]

open access: yesUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Gerður Kristný Guðjónsdóttir: „Poles“ (2019) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond ‘ása ok álfa’

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
: 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]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

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