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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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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

, 2014
Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages Responsables du projet/Project leaders : Clunies Ross Margaret (mcr@arts.usyd.edu.au) Établissement principal/Main institution : University of Sidney Projet en cours/Project in progress Description : The ...
Rédaction
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Representations of Christ in Christian Skaldic Poetry [PDF]

, 2015
This thesis aims to demonstrate that, through use of literary genre, vocabulary, and emphasis of detail, the authors of Christian skaldic verse in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries continually reshaped a specific set of representations for Christ to ...
Cheadle, RE
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Þjalar-Jóns saga

, 2017
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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Runic and Skaldic Evidence of Palatal r in West Norse

, 2020
Runic evidence shows that the phonemes r and palatal ʀ merged at an early date in West Norse. I argue here that skaldic poetry also comprises valid evidence of this merger and that there is no reason to believe that r and ʀ should have rhymed until the ...
Þorgeirsson, Haukur, Haukur Þorgeirsson, Þorgeirsson, Haukur,   +2 more
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‘Heilir þeirs hlýddu’: Skaldic Audiences in Old Norse Saga Literature

This thesis examines how audiences of Old Norse skaldic poetry are depicted in the corpus of prosimetric sagas composed primarily in Iceland between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries.
Chennells, John Benjamin
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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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"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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