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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae III: From Metric-Structural Type to Compositional System

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2015
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 realised. This is the third part of a
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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 II: Base-Word-Determinant Indexing

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 realised.
- Frog
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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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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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Sigvatr’s Tears: The Phenomenology of Emotion in Skaldic Verse

, 2022
This article suggests that skaldic verse — as a direct result of its famously complex formal features — is able to encode and convey complex, dynamic emotional interiorities in ways that move beyond the possibilities of saga prose. Through a close analysis of Sigvatr Þórðarson’s lausavísa 20 that is attuned to the temporal nature of reading, it is ...
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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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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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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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