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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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Skaldic Poetics and the Making of the Sagas of Icelanders [PDF]
, 2015 Page range: 117 ...
Nordal, Guðrún
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Changing style and changing meaning: Icelandic historiography and the medieval redactions of Heiðreks saga [PDF]
, 2005 Sagas appeared on Scandinavian scholars' horizons around the seventeenth century, when their narratives were accepted as reasonably accurate accounts on past events.
Hall, Alaric
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Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries PublicationsThe 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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Remembering Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)uðga Ketilsdóttir: construction of cultural memory and female religious identity [PDF]
, 2013 Medieval Icelandic literature recounts stories of both pagans and Christians settling in Iceland. Most of these stories focus on a male protagonist. However one of these tales centres around a female settler, namely Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)úðga Ketilsdóttir ...
Vanherpen, Sofie
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Guðbrandur Vigfússon as an editor of Old Norse-Icelandic literature [PDF]
, 2016 Guðbrandur Vigfússon, an Icelander born in Galtardalur, Dalasýsla, was without doubt one of the most influential scholars of Old Norse studies of his day.
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Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie OccidentaleMedieval 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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The uses and abuses of the past: cultural rhetoric and the unmaking of a moral universe [PDF]
, 2014 It is well established ethnographically that history is a particularly important and celebrated aspect of Icelandic identity. Paraphrasing Hastrup, it could be argued that Icelandic culture is a culture of the past.
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The Icelandic Sagas as a Subject for Undergraduate Study [PDF]
, 2012 While medieval studies has dramatically expanded its scope and the texts taught as part of its subject over the past few decades, the study of Icelandic saga literature is still a fringe discipline, particularly in North American academe.
Sexton, John P.
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Wild Collection and Cultivation of Native Species in Iceland [PDF]
, 2014 Based on an MSc thesis submitted to the joint Master program between University of Kassel and University of Goettingen and later published: WHITNEY C.W., GEBAUER J. & ANDERSON M. 2012.
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