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Impossibilia: Revista Internacional de Estudios Literarios, 2021 This paper contributes to a growing body of research investigating the role of translations in the post-medieval reception of Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
Edel PORTER
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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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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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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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The Formation of an Old Norse Skaldic School Canon in the Early Thirteenth Century
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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‘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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Scripta Islandica, 2023 The idea that Old Norse poetry derives from an oral tradition is commonly accepted in contemporary research. However, more detailed considerations of the consequences of this notion for our understanding of specific poems and their context are seldomly ...
Simon Nygaard
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Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : No one shows much surprise at the many kennings referring to poetry and the mead of poetry that are found in the Old Norse corpus of poetry. There is, however, another group of rather puzzling kennings, which seem to have been taken mainly at face ...
Ingunn Ásdísardóttir
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Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2018 Issue No. 4 is the first open issue of Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures. It contains contributions by Henry Bainton (12th-century historiography), Lucie Doležalová (parabiblical texts and the canon), Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Irish ...
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