Constructing History: The Use of the Past as a Model for the Present in the Icelandic Sagas
Collegium Medievale, 2010 The Icelandic sagas can be read and interpreted in many ways. This article examines the sagas both as literary expressions of a longstanding oral tradition and as part of a collective and cultural memory.
Michael Riber Jørgensen
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Religion, Alfar and Dvergar [PDF]
, 2014 En este artículo apuntamos a explorar la conexión entre dos tipos de entidades míticas colectivas, los álfar y los dvergar. Ponderamos críticamente la fiabilidad de las distintas fuentes y analizamos el modo en que esos seres son presentados en algunos ...
Barreiro, Santiago Francisco
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Review of: West over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement Before 1300. A Festschrift in honour of Dr Barbara E. Crawford [PDF]
, 2010 No abstract ...
Foster, S.
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
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An Algebra of Hierarchical Graphs and its Application to Structural Encoding [PDF]
, 2010 We define an algebraic theory of hierarchical graphs, whose axioms characterise graph isomorphism: two terms are equated exactly when they represent the same graph.
Bruni, Roberto +2 more
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Andrology, EarlyView.Abstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Manuela Simoni +2 more
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Opferbeschreibungen in christlichen Schriften
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990 The article analyses Christian influences as they can be observed in the narrations of traditional Icelandic Sagas from the early Christian period. It gives special attention to rituals of offering as these are depicted in the Landnámabók (dating from ...
Jón Aðalsteinsson
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Microtubule Inner Protein CFAP77 Contributes to Sperm Motility and Male Fertility in Mice
Andrology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Sperm motility is essential for male fertility, and its regulation is dependent on the structural integrity of the axoneme. The axoneme consists of a conserved “9+2” microtubule arrangement and is supported by microtubule inner proteins. However, the functional significance of many microtubule inner proteins remains unclear.
Haoting Wang +4 more
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La diplomazia culturale di Luchaire nella Firenze di primo Novecento
Storicamente, 2018 The paper is focused on the network of transnational intellectual relations and the political-cultural activity of Luchaire in Florence from the foundation of the French Institute (1907) to his departure for Paris in the post-war period.
Monica Pacini
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A reformation model of compliance to improve the property tax revenue generation in Malaysian local governments [PDF]
, 2016 This study is aimed at proposing an extension on Fisher’s model of compliance behavior based on empirical findings on property tax revenue generated in Malaysian local government.
Kasim, Rozilah
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