Grund gulls [ground of gold]: The Trope of Woman as “Land” in Skaldic Poetry from the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries [PDF]
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2014 : Skaldic diction has long been noted for the many analogies it creates between the human body and the natural environment. One manifestation of this interchange occurs where women are referenced by kennings with base ...
Emily Osborne
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The Skaldic Project and Lexicon Poeticum
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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The Formation of an Old Norse Skaldic School Canon in the Early Thirteenth Century [PDF]
Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2018 The academicization of the skaldic art in the twelfth century led to the production of model verses illustrating various meters and variations in the highly formalized poetic imagery, and, later, to skaldic treatises laying out the rules of the art form.
Jonas Wellendorf
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Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar [PDF]
, 2007 My project analyses the extent to which, though a process of translation (or rewriting), skaldic poetry has been appropriated and manipulated in such a way as to help construct ideas of national identity.
Porter, Edel Maria
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A skald in royal service – the case Þórarinn loftunga. Part 2: Poetics and ideology of Tøgdrápa
Studia Maritima, 2021 The present study is focused on Tøgdrápa (Journey drápa), a poem Þórarinn devoted to Knútr’s expedition to Norway in 1028. A distinguished feature of Tøgdrápa is its metre – tøglag (journey metre).
Jakub Morawiec
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Sigvatr’s tears: the phenomenology of emotion in Skaldic verse [PDF]
, 2022 This article suggests that skaldic verse — as a direct result of its famously complex formal features — is able to encode and convey complex, dynamic emotional interiorities in ways that move beyond the possibilities of saga prose.
Evans, Gareth Lloyd
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A skald in royal service – the case Þórarinn loftunga. Part 1: Ideological contexts of Hofuðlausn
Studia Maritima, 2020 The first half of the 11th century was marked by serious challenges for the skaldic art. An advent of Christianity in the North in general and the baptism of numerous rulers in par- ticular, made skalds make efforts to implement symbolism of the new ...
Jakub Morawiec
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Symposium on Skaldic editing. Snorrastofa, Reykholt, Iceland, Friday 4th-Sunday 6th May, 2001
, 2002 Over the first weekend in May 2002, some forty scholars gathered int he ideal setting of Snorrastofa at Reyholt in Borgarfjordur for a Symposium in association with the international editorial project, Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages ...
Whaley D
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‘The flowing-haired friend of the fire of altars’
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : There are very few sources, other than material remains and spatial arrangements revealed by archaeological excavation, that can give modern researchers access to the thought-world of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. Some skaldic poetry presumed to
Margaret Clunies Ross
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Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2019 The image of St. Olaf II Haraldsson, the King of Norway who was canonized in the 11th century, was studied. The reign of Olaf II Haraldsson (1015–1028) was marked by the integration of the Norwegian lands and the Christianization of the Norwegians. These
A.D. Mokropolova
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