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METAPHOR OF FORM IN “LILY” (architectonics of Icelandic Fourteenth century Christian Drapa)

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2018
Aim of the study is explication of the narrative technique of the person who composed “Lily”; research demands attention to the following aspects of the drapa: 1) its architectonics, i.e.
Nataliya L Ogurechnikova
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Painful Love and Desire in Skírnismál

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
: The Eddic poem Skírnismál depicts erotically associated suffering in several instances. The god Freyr is filled with pain and grief when he first lays eyes on the beautiful jǫtunn maiden Gerðr.
Daniel Sävborg
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Flavia Teoc, Perspectiva sofianică în Saga regelui Harald. Studiu privind articularea sensului din unghiul textemelor kenning, Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărții de Știință, 2020, 211 p.

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023
Perspectiva sofianică în Saga regelui Harald.  Studiu privind articularea sensului din unghiul textemelor kenning (The Sophian Perspective in Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar), by PhD Flavia Teoc, proposes an in-depth analysis of the kenning metaphors from a ...
Daniel RUSU
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The many virtues of the strange Type Eε. Metre, Semantics and intertextuality in dróttkvætt

Filologia Germanica
The pattern which Eduard Sievers defined as “Eε” is the only line-type in dróttkvætt to have a trisyllabic word in the final metrical positions 4-6, thus deviating from the otherwise ubiquitous disyllabic closing (positions 5-6).
BIANCA PATRIA
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Religion in the Viking Age Moral Economy

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
: On those rare occasions when Old Norse religion and morality are set alongside one another, the notion of a non-Christian morality is typically dismissed or Old Norse religion is viewed as actively holding back moral progress.
Declan Taggart
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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology III: The Old Norse Poetic Ecology

Studia Metrica et Poetica
This paper is the third in a three-part series that develops a model for the background of rhyme in Old Norse dróttkvætt poetry as a formalization of the same form of rhyme found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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Poetics and politics in Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar

Filologia Germanica
Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar contains many skaldic stanzas composed by different poets and by King Haraldr himself. The aim of this article is to discuss the rhetoric of self-praise and other techniques that Haraldr Sigurðarson and the skalds around him ...
Maria Cristina Lombardi
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae III: From Metric-Structural Type to Compositional System

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2015
This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised. This is the third part of a
- Frog
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Visions et spectres dans la littérature norroise : aperçus sur la culture germanique ancienne

Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2012
Ancient Germanic culture was kept in an exceptionally accurate way in Old Norse literature such as it has been recorded by medieval Icelandic clerics.
Daniel Lacroix
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae II: Base-Word-Determinant Indexing

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014
This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised.
- Frog
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