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A SELECTION OF SKALDIC POEMS [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2016 Rendering skaldic poetry into another language is a challenge for translators. The main feature of this poetic system is its highly intricate form governed by rigid rules.
Elena A. Gurevich
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The Skaldic Project and Lexicon Poeticum [PDF]
Revista de Poética Medieval, 2019 This paper describes a digital project to edit the Old Norse poetic corpus known as skaldic poetry, composed between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. The Skaldic Project started in 1997 with the first editions published in 2007, and 75% of the corpus ...
Tarrin Wills
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Skaldic Poetry across Borders. Sigvatr Þórðarson’s Austrfararvísur
Lea, 2023 The Austrfararvísur (Verses on a Journey to the East) could be defined as a poem of borders: in these vísur Sigvatr Þórðarson, the skald of Óláfr the Saint, narrates his crossing of various geographical, political, and religious borders.
Maria Cristina Lombardi
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The Bible of Hermann of Valenciennes and the Icelandic Biblical Paraphrase Lily [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2022 The article presents the results of a comparative textual analysis of the Bible of Herman de Valenciennes (end of the 12th c.) and Lily, an anonymous Icelandic biblical paraphrase (the first half of the 14th c).
Nataliia L. Ogurechnikova
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Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023 This paper is the second in a three-part series on the distinctive type of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter, argued to have emerged through the metricalization of uses of rhyme within a short line found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023 This paper is the first in a three-part series or tryptic that argues for the Old Germanic origins of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter. This meter requires rhymes on the stressed syllables of two words within a six-position line, irrespective of ...
Frog
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Manuscript and Text Cultures, 2023 The Karlevi runestone, on the island of Öland, off the south-east coast of Sweden, is inscribed with the only known full stanza of Old Norse skaldic verse in Viking Age runes (that is, from approximately AD 750–1100). It is generally dated to the end of
Heather O'Donoghue
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Archaic Martial Traditions in High Medieval Scandinavia: A Glimpse of Viking Age Warfare?
Viking, 2021 Most written evidence regarding warfare in Viking Age Scandinavia originates either from contemporaneous chronicles – recorded by those at the receiving end of Norse attacks – from skaldic poetry, or from high medieval Scandinavian texts.
Beñat Elortza Larrea
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Gilds, states and societies in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 627-662, November 2020., 2020 The early medieval gilds of north‐west Europe were very different from their later medieval descendants. They were not specifically urban or economic in focus, instead being based on religious devotion, feasting and mutual protection, usually among members united by status and geography.
Rory Naismith
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Home thoughts of abroad: Ohthere’s Voyage in its Anglo‐Saxon context
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 256-288, May 2020., 2020 The Old English text known as Ohthere’s Voyage is regarded as a key source for Norwegian history. Consequently, the context of its composition and inclusion in the Old English Orosius has often been overlooked. This article demonstrates that the text cannot be separated from the processes that shaped it during its early transmission.
Ben Allport
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