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Osborne Emily, Thinking outside the hall: the conceptual boundaries of Skaldic verse [PDF]

, 2014
Osborne, Emily, Thinking outside the hall: the conceptual boundaries of Skaldic verse, Thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2013, (dir. J. Quinn, University of Cambridge) Royal courts, ships, battle-fields, farms, forests, churches, prisons – in the Icelandic ...
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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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Heather O'Donoghue. — Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative. Oxford, Univ. Press, 2005. [PDF]

, 2007
Boyer Régis. Heather O'Donoghue. — Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative. Oxford, Univ. Press, 2005.. In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 50e année (n°197), Janvier-mars 2007. pp.
Boyer, Régis
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The King is dead, long live the King: commemoration in skaldic verse of the Viking age [PDF]

, 2016
This thesis examines the function of commemorative skaldic verse at the Viking-age court. The first chapter demonstrates that the commemoration of past kings could provide a prestigious genealogical record that was used to legitimize both pagan and ...
Goeres, Erin Michelle
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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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‘Heilir þeirs hlýddu’: Skaldic Audiences in Old Norse Saga Literature [PDF]

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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Skaldic Slam: Performance Poetry in the Norwegian Royal Court [PDF]

, 2014
This thesis focuses on the live performance of pre-Christian skaldic poetry in Norway during the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries from a Performance Studies perspective, and seeks to move away from more traditional book-bound and text-based analysis ...
Millward, Anna, 1990-
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Kennings in Mind and Memory: Cognitive Poetics and Skaldic Verse [PDF]

, 2017
This study inspects the mental processes underpinning the use of imagery in the kennings of five skaldic poems: Vellekla, Hákonardrápa, Øxarflokkr, Íslendingadrápa, and Ævikviða Grettis Ásmundarsonar.
Haley-Halinski, Kathryn Ania
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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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