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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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Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar [PDF]
My project analyses the extent to which, though a process of translation (or rewriting), skaldic poetry has been appropriated and manipulated in such a way as to help construct ideas of national identity.
Porter, Edel Maria
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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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Religion in the Viking Age Moral Economy
: 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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Relational Data Modelling of Textual Corpora: The Skaldic Project and its Extensions [PDF]
Skaldic poetry is a highly complex textual phenomenon both in terms of the intricacy of the poetry and its contextual environment. Extensible Markup Language (XML) applications such as that of the Text Encoding Initiative pro-vide a means of semantic ...
Wills, Tarrin Jon, Tarrin Wills
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Poetics and politics in Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar
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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Themes of gospel and nativity in Icelandic biblical paraphrase [PDF]
The article examines stanzas 27–33 from “Lilja”, an Icelandic biblical paraphrase written in the form of skaldic drapa and dating from the first half of the XIV c. The subject of the article is the sources of these stanzas and the nature of the skald’s
Ogurechnikova, Nataliia L.
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Bound animal bodies. Ornamentation and skaldic poetry in the process of Christianization. [PDF]
Bound animal bodies.
Domeij, Maria
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Mythical and Metaphorical Landscapes in Skaldic Poetry [PDF]
It is in vain that one looks for realistic descriptions of landscapes in skaldic poetry. There is no interest in the landscapes where the actions which are the only concerns of this genre take place. However, landscape features such as mountains, the sea,
Marold, Edith, Edith Marold
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An edition and commentary of two skaldic stanzas from Þjalar-Jóns saga. These two stanzas have never been critically edited previously, having been omitted in Finnur Jónsson's edition of skaldic ...
Lavender, Philip,
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