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Jómsvíkinga Sǫgur and Jómsvíkinga Drápur: texts, contexts and intertexts [PDF]
, 2014 Using theories of intertextuality the paper explores the implications of the complex transmission of Jómsvíkinga saga, with its multiple manuscripts, versions and cross-references in other texts.
Jesch, Judith
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Studia Metrica et PoeticaThis 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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Skaldic Poetics and the Making of the Sagas of Icelanders [PDF]
, 2015 Page range: 117 ...
Nordal, Guðrún
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, 2014 Series introduction to New Trad literary journal, dedicated to new poems that make use of archaic ...
Joshua Mostafa
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Poetics and politics in Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar
Filologia GermanicaHaralds 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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Forgotten Laxdæla poetry : a study and an edition of Tyrfingur Finnsson's Vísur uppá Laxdæla sögu [PDF]
, 2017 The paper discusses the metre and the diction of a previously unpublished small poem about characters of Laxdæla saga, composed in 18th century. The stanzas are ostensibly in skaldic dróttkvætt; the analysis shows it to be an imitation of the classical ...
Sverdlov, Ilya, Vanherpen, Sofie
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The Emergence and Transformation of Medieval Cumbria [PDF]
, 2014 This is the accepted manuscript. The final version's available from Edinburgh University Press at http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/shr.2014.0216. There has long been uncertainty about the relationship between the polities known as Strathclyde
Edmonds, Fiona
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On the origin of the oldest borrowed Christian terminology in Icelandic [PDF]
, 2016 This article deals with the origin of the oldest core of borrowed Christian terminology still extant in Icelandic, i.e. those words which were introduced in Old Norse in the period ranging from the first evangelical missions in Scandinavia (9th c.) to ...
Tarsi, Matteo
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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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Runes and words: runic lexicography in context [PDF]
, 2013 The paper begins by noting the lack of a comprehensive dictionary of Scandinavian runic inscriptions, as well as the absence of the runic evidence from most dictionaries of the early Scandinavian languages, and considers possible reasons for this. Runic
Jesch, Judith
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