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Sublime encounters: Commodifying the experience of the geos
This paper discusses scientific and economic aspects of two recent Icelandic eruptions, focussing particularly on the tension between tourism, which commodifies the experience of the earth, and risk management, which limits it.e00067 This paper discusses the rise in volcano tourism in the last few decades, focusing on its impact in recent eruptive ...
Amy Donovan
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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]
'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies' uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies ...
Hall, Alaric
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The Question of Ancient Scandinavian Cultic Buildings: with Particular Reference to Old Norse hof
The article focuses on the question of ancient Scandinavian cultic buildings, with particular reference to the concept Old Norse hof. I survey the semantics of this term in written sources, in poetic traditions, in the Sagas of the Icelanders and in ...
OLOF SUNDQVIST
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Pole-weapons in the Sagas of Icelanders: a comparison of literary and archaeological sources
The Icelandic sagas are a major source of information on the Vikings and their fighting prowess. In these stories, several mysterious pole-weapons appear, which are often called “halberds”, for lack of a better word.
Orkisz Jan H.
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This article argues that the Icelandic legendary saga Áns saga bogsveigis was written as a complementary Egils saga with an alternative outcome, one in which it is not the aggressive tyrant who wins, but the farmers.
Eldar Heide
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda [PDF]
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in
Reis, Jacob Robert
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Conceptualizing the Multicultural ‘North’ in the Íslendingasögur: Peoples, Places, and Phenomena
During the early medieval period, a large part of Fennoscandia was inhabited by the Sámi (Zachrisson 2008, 32). With written sources such as Historia Norvegiæ, Ágrip af Noregs konungasǫgum, and Heimskringla referring to Sámi settlements in the Viking ...
Solveig Marie Wang
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Reception of the old Icelandic literature in the Icelandic poetry of the 1990s — 2020s [PDF]
The reception of Old Icelandic literature in the Icelandic poetry of the 1990-2020ies is to be found mainly in its' contents. Contemporary Icelandic poets seek mostly to the well-known sagas of Icelanders or mythological songs of the Elder Edda.
Olga Markelova
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Science, Tradition and Scholarship: Restoring Trust to Higher Learning in Iceland [PDF]
In this paper I argue that the academic culture, politics and the organization of the University of Iceland has been characterized by three cultures that I label as the literary, the civic, and the Humboldtian traditions. These traditions have mixed with
Þórlindsson, Þórólfur
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Dragons are frequent presences in Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, composed between the 13th and 15th centuries. The locations where dragons appear have been so far observed mainly under the lens of their relation to centre/periphery dynamics and regarding the
Miguel Andrade
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