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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
wiley   +1 more source

"Rúmferlar" in the icelandic saga literature: kings' sagas, the sagas of icelanders, and pilgrimage. [PDF]

, 2017
: The aim of this thesis is to analyze examples of pilgrimages to Rome in the Old Norse saga literature with focus on king’s sagas and the sagas of Icelanders.
Katarskytė, Auksė Beatričė,
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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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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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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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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
wiley   +1 more source

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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The Present and the Past in the Sagas of Icelanders

, 2017
This chapter examines how the Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), which were mostly written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, reflected their present in a particularly period of the past, the so-called ‘Saga-Age’ which roughly covers the ...
Haki Antonsson
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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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