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Hildaland, or bringing the ice: Reflections on missing persons, Intermittent Islands, and the ethnography of uncertain presence

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 33-48, June 2024.
Abstract Taking its cue from the loss (more precisely, the disappearance) of a close friend and sometime collaborator, and drawing on my long‐term fieldwork on an experimental arts festival held annually in the Orkney Islands, this essay reflects on the challenges of documenting uncertain or intermittent presence, as well as the possibilities the ...
Stuart McLean
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The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition (Open Access)

, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0308 https://www.medievalists.net/2023/04/new-medieval-books-poetic ...
Klaus Graf
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Old Norse Heimr ʻWorldʼ and its Toponymic Derivatives in the Poetic Edda

Вопросы 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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The Queer Edda : A study of queer leakages in The Poetic Edda

, 2022
This essay analyses the songs from Den poetiska Eddan (The Poetic Edda) with a queer perspective through a queer reading. I use Tiina Rosenberg’s concept of queer leakage along with historical contextualization to figure out how to approach an older text
Randeblad, Joel
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Verbal hyperbaton in the Viking Age runic inscriptions

Scripta Islandica
Verbal hyperbaton is a kind of word order discontinuity where a verb intervenes between a nominal modifier – e.g. an adjective or a demonstrative determiner – and its head noun, e.g. ‘they this raised stone’ or ‘this raised they stone’. This phenom­enon
Eric Lander
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The Codex Optimus Attitude: Methodological Bias in Editions of the Poetic Edda

Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere
This contribution addresses two topics: the methodological bias in critical editions of the Poetic Edda, and the classification and origin of variants.
Miriam Conti
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The Old Norse FrameNet (ONoFN): Developing a New Digital Resource for the Study of Semantics and Syntax within a Medieval Germanic Tradition

Filologia Germanica
The “Old Norse FrameNet” (ONoFN) project aims at filling the gap between digital resources informed by contemporary linguistic theory and traditional research on Old Norse and Germanic lexical semantics and literary and religious topoi.
Riccardo Ginevra, Francesco Mambrini
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Summary: Poetic Edda

, 2009
The first complete translation of the Poetic Edda from Old Icelandic into Lithuanian, which contains both the mythological and heroic poems from the medieval Icelandic manuscript GKS 2365 4° (Codex Regius, isl. Konungsbók) and a ...
Vijūnas, Aurelijus
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William Morris and the Poetic Edda

, 2016
Since his youth, William Morris was interested in Medieval culture, in particular in the Nordic literature. But it is only in 1868 that he began, with the help of the Icelander Eirikr Magnusson, to read and translate Icelandic sagas and other nordic ...
ZIRONI, ALESSANDRO
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The Once and Future Hero

Fafnir, 2017
This paper examines the figure of the hero in Quest Fantasy novels, George R. R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time.
Eduardo Lima
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