Speech-wrangling : shutting up and shutting out the oral tradition in some Icelandic sagas [PDF]
, 2022 This chapter considers the role of prolegomena and authorial interventions in constraining and contextualizing orally derived saga narratives in high medieval Iceland.
McMahon, Brian, Brian McMahon
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The Question of Ancient Scandinavian Cultic Buildings: with Particular Reference to Old Norse hof
Temenos, 2009 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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Sublime encounters: Commodifying the experience of the geos
Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 5, Issue 2, July-December 2018., 2018 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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Edda, 2018 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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Sagas and genre: A case for application of network analysis to manuscripts preserving Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature [PDF]
, 2023 This study applies statistical approaches to the analysis of the genre relationships of Old Norse-Icelandic literature in order to expand our understanding of the relationships between works, their transmission, and their possible modes of reception, as ...
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Julia Me Grew et R. George Thomas, trad. introd. — « Sturlunga Saga ». I : The Saga of Hvamm-Slurla and the Saga of the Icelanders. II : Shorter Sagas of the Icelanders, New York, 1970/74 [PDF]
, 1978 Boyer Régis. Julia Me Grew et R. George Thomas, trad. introd. — « Sturlunga Saga ». I : The Saga of Hvamm-Slurla and the Saga of the Icelanders. II : Shorter Sagas of the Icelanders, New York, 1970/74.
Boyer, Régis
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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. ФилологияThe 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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MedievalistaDragons 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 literary significance of clothing in the Icelandic family sagas [PDF]
, 1992 This thesis examines the occurrences of clothes and the particular ways in which they are used in some of the Icelandic family sagas in order to assess their literary significance.
Roscoe, Jane Christine
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