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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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Runic and Skaldic Evidence of Palatal r in West Norse [PDF]
, 2020 Runic evidence shows that the phonemes r and palatal ʀ merged at an early date in West Norse. I argue here that skaldic poetry also comprises valid evidence of this merger and that there is no reason to believe that r and ʀ should have rhymed until the ...
Þorgeirsson, Haukur +2 more
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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 ...
Paolo Borsa +9 more
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BOOK REVIEW: FLAVIA TEOC, „PERSPECTIVA SOFIANICĂ ÎN SAGA REGELUI HARALD. STUDIU PRIVIND ARTICULAREA SENSULUI DIN UNGHIUL TEXTEMELOR KENNING”, CLUJ-NAPOCA: CASA CĂRȚII DE ȘTIINȚĂ, 2020, 211 PP. [PDF]
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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What Did King Hákon góði Do before the Battle at Fitjar and after the Battle at Avaldsnes?
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : The starting point for this paper is the enigmatic stanza 6 of the Norwegian skald Guthormr sindri's mid-900s poem Hákonardrápa. This stanza depicts the Norwegian king Hákon góði clashing his spears together over the heads of the fallen warriors after ...
Andreas Nordberg
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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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The many virtues of the strange Type Eε. Metre, Semantics and intertextuality in dróttkvætt
Filologia GermanicaThe 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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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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