Thomas Gray and the Goths: philology, poetry, and the uses of the Norse past in eighteenth-century England [PDF]
, 2014 In 1761 Thomas Gray composed two loose translations of Old Norse poems: The Fatal Sisters and The Descent of Odin. This article reconstructs Gray’s complex engagement with the world of seventeenth-century Scandinavian scholarship: recovering the texts he
Williams, Kelsey Jackson
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Jak Duch Boży staje sie bożym wiatrem, czyli czy tłumacz Biblii jest twórczy? Uwagi na marginesie szwedzkiego przekładu Mojż. 1:2 w Biblii 2000 (Bibel 2000) [PDF]
, 2016 The first verses of Genesis have been translated into Swedish and many other languages several times and in quite different ways. The variations presuppose correspondingly distinct images of the very first moments of creation and, in consequence ...
Maciejewski, Witold
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Warriors, heroes and companions: negotiating masculinity in Viking-Age England [PDF]
, 2008 Detailed analysis of the construction of gender identities has transformed our understanding of many aspects of early medieval society, yet the study of the Vikings in Britain has largely remained immune to this branch of scholarship.
Hadley, D.M.
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Subject-tracking and topic continuity in the Church Slavonic translation of the story of Abraham and his niece Mary [PDF]
, 2019 The present article addresses issues of referentiality and text cohesion in a Church Slavonic narrative text. Starting with the specific problem of referential conflict as formulated by Kibrik (19871, issues of tracking personal participants in a ...
Stern, Dieter
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Mythological Allusion in the Late Verse of Egill Skallagrímsson
Scandinavian-Canadian StudiesThe 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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"Las kenningar" (1933), by Jorge Luis Borges: The skaldic poetry of Iceland in the crossroads between ultraism and baroque poetry [PDF]
, 2016 Uno de los primeros textos en que se materializó el interés de Borges por la literatura germánica medieval es «Las kenningar», un ensayo publicado en 1933 por Francisco Colombo en el que tratará de analizar un tipo singular de metáfora «los kenningar ...
Fernández Moreno, Sergio
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The Goddess: Myths of the Great Mother
, 2016 The Goddess is all around us: Her face is reflected in the burgeoning new growth of every ensuing spring; her power is evident in the miracle of conception and childbirth and in the newborn’s cry as it searches for the nurturing breast; we glimpse her in
Fee, Christopher R., Leeming, David
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Gender and Genre: Short and Long Forms in the Saga Literature [PDF]
, 2008 Page range: 261 ...
Harris, Joseph
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An Analysis of Viking Culture: Clichéd Views of the English Raids and Settlements through Modern Media [PDF]
, 2016 The Viking culture has been one of the major influencers of the history of Europe, especially in the northern territories, such as the United Kingdom. This dissertation consists on the analysis of the historical information about this culture in Britain ...
Valverde Pérez, Ana
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