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Haraldr Sigurðarson’s arrival in Rus’ and his participation in the campaign against Poland in 1031

Historisk Tidsskrift, 2020
In 1031, Haraldr Sigurðarson, also known as harðráði, started his mercenary career, soon becoming one of the most famous Varangians and, later on, the Norwegian king.
Maciej Lubik
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Inventing a saga form: The development of the kings’ sagas

Filologia Germanica
This study concerns form and the aesthetics of the Kings’ Sagas, a subject that has been somewhat neglected by previous kings’ saga scholars. Among the formal categories that will be given particular attention are the role of anecdotal material and ...
Armann Jacobsson
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae I: When is a Valkyrie Like a Spear?

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 realized.
- Frog
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Teaching Latin in medieval Iceland: an overview

The Journal of Classics Teaching
Scholarship on Scandinavian linguistics has long recognised an indigenous metalinguistic tradition, rooted in runic writing and skaldic poetry, that developed independently of Latin influence.
Michele Longo
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“Deep the Raven Wades in Gore:” Death Songs and the Norse-Gothic Spectacle [PDF]

Litteraria Pragensia
The Norse skaldic poem The Death Song of Ragnar Lodbrok, a celebration of the military exploits and death of the legendary warrior-king Ragnar Lodbrok, was a popular text for translation in the eighteenth century.
Sharon Choe
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Mythological Allusion in the Late Verse of Egill Skallagrímsson

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
The essay examines Egill Skallagrímsson’s renunciation of his veneration of Óðinn, the god of war and poetry, in the poem Sonatorrek.  References to this patron and to the whole corpus of early Scandinavian mythology almost entirely disappear from the ...
William Sayers
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Den tidlige kirkeorganisasjonen i Eidsivatingslagen

Collegium Medievale, 2020
This article presents a new interpretation and identification of a particular type of church in inland East-Norway (Eidsivatingslagen), known in Old Norse as the þriðjungkirkja.
Frode Iversen, Jan Brendalsmo
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Nýgerving and Skaldic Innovation. Towards an Intertextual Understanding of Skaldic Stylistics

, 2022
The pervasive nature and conventionality of skaldic diction have prompted a number of modern analyses to treat it as a self-contained semiotic system, an understanding already implied in the concept of skáldskaparmál ‘language of poetry’. One of the limitations of an exclusively systemic analysis, however, is the risk of treating skaldic diction as ...
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"Odějme Tóra v nevěsty úbor!" O genderových stereotypech severské společnosti v době Vikingské éry

Theatrum Historiae, 2009
This article, based on Scandinavian narrative sources (tha sagas), skaldic and eddic poetry as well as medieval law-codes, presents a particular view of the Scandinavian gender history during the Viking Age.
Lenka Doová
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Quando le valchirie cantano in nederlandese: Het weefgezang der walkyren di A.C.W. Staring

Filologia Germanica
In the course of the seventeenth century a new interest in their own past awoke in the cultural elites in Scandinavia. Such interest brought about not only pioneering historiographic works, but also the edition and translation of Old Norse literary ...
Fulvio Ferrari
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