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Conceptualizing the Multicultural ‘North’ in the Íslendingasögur: Peoples, Places, and Phenomena

Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2020
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]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология
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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Where be dragons?

Medievalista
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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The Nordic vision: Broadcasting Nordicness in the televised Nordic Council prize ceremonies

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 302-322, August 2025.
Abstract Since 2013, the Nordic Council prizes have been awarded at live broadcast ceremonies in the Nordic countries. The Nordic Council Prize in Literature is the most prestigious, but like the other prizes, it is also part of a regional political project by the Nordic Council based on a culture of prize‐giving.
Henrik Fürst, Johanna Pettersson Fürst
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Quantifying Feelings

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
The medieval sagas of Icelanders, celebrated for their emotionally restrained narrative style, merge prose with verse in a genre-defining prosimetrum.
Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir
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Testi screditati, testi accantonati. Per una rilettura delle saghe degli islandesi ‘post-classiche’ o ‘recenziori’

Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Occidentale
Medieval Icelandic sagas include the so-called ‘post-classical’ or ‘late’ Íslendingasögur (Sagas of Icelanders), a group of fourteenth-century texts that are compelling and innovative, as they challenge narrative conventions, especially from the point
Ceolin, Martina
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What do they talk about “in fair words” in Old Norse-Icelandic literature?

Шаги
The paper analyses the use of the paroemia at mæla fagrt ok hyggja flátt (to speak fairly and to think falsely) in the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, focusing both on the paroemia and its derivative — the representation of the characters’ eloquence
D. S. Glebova
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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Snorre Sturlason som balanskonstnär

Collegium Medievale, 2010
This article discusses the historical context of Snorri Sturluson-´s work, known as "Kings-´ Sagas", its title and structure as well as his purposes and intended audiences.
Birgit Sawyer
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Kung Sverre och norrön sagaskrivning

Scripta Islandica
In an article published in 1914 Halvdan Koht tried to show that King Sverrir Sigurðs­son, who ruled Norway between 1177 and 1202, had played an important role in the early history of Old Norse saga-writing.
Lars Lönnroth
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