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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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The politics of performance in Viking Age skaldic poetry [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis examines the political functions of the performance of skaldic poetry during the Viking Age. It aims to establish the vital role that skaldic verse plays in the establishment and maintenance of power, as well as the importance of skaldic ...
Ferreira, Annemari, Annemari Ferreira
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'The Eagle's Oars are Feathers' - Skaldic Practice and Perception Beyond Performance [PDF]
, 2019 One of the perennial mysteries of Old Norse skaldic poetry is how skalds learned to compose such complex verses. The medieval Icelandic sagas feature a multitude of characters who compose skaldic poetry, many of whom appear
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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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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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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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