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Complete sagas of Icelanders [PDF]
New English translations of the entire corpus of the sagas of Icelanders and connected ...
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The Nordic vision: Broadcasting Nordicness in the televised Nordic Council prize ceremonies
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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“Ór franzeisu í norrænu” The transmission of Chrétien de Troyes’ Arthurian romances to old Norse literature [PDF]
The present dissertation examines the riddarasogur based on the Arthurian romances by Chrétien de Troyes: Ívens saga, Erex saga, Parcevals saga and Valvens þáttr.
Lorenz, Christine
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"Rúmferlar" in the icelandic saga literature: kings' sagas, the sagas of icelanders, and pilgrimage. [PDF]
: 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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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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Code of honour under debate in two Icelandic sagas [PDF]
This article examines the prevailing honour code in two Old Norse sagas, namely one saga about early Icelanders, the saga of Gisle Sursson, Gisla saga Súrssonar and one dealing with events from a late medieval society, the saga of Torgils and Havlide ...
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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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Brennu-njáls saga: projeto tradutório e tradução para o português [PDF]
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2014.A tese contém a tradução completa para o português da Brennu-Njáls saga (Saga de Njáll ...
Moosburger, Théo de Borba
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The Walking Icelanders: Revenants in the Íslendingasögur [PDF]
This study analyzes the revenants found in six different sagas from the Íslendingasögur, or Icelandic Family Sagas. Revenants are those people who die and then reanimate post-mortem to haunt the living, or pre-mortem.
Bristow, Devon
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What do they talk about “in fair words” in Old Norse-Icelandic literature?
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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