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Quando le valchirie cantano in nederlandese: Het weefgezang der walkyren di A.C.W. Staring

open access: yesFilologia Germanica
In the course of the seventeenth century a new interest in their own past awoke in the cultural elites in Scandinavia. Such interest brought about not only pioneering historiographic works, but also the edition and translation of Old Norse literary ...
Fulvio Ferrari
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Skaldic Project y Lexicon Poeticum

open access: yes, 2019
This paper describes a digital project to edit the Old Norse poetic corpus known as skaldic poetry, composed between the ninth and fourteenth centuries.
Wills, Tarrin
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One god and one king: The unification of Norway according to Snorri Sturluson

open access: yesFilologia Germanica
This article is a diachronic analysis of Snorri’s account of the unification of Norway, partly supplementing and partly revising the argument put forward in my book Society and Politics in Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla (Berkeley 1991).
Sverre Bagge
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Skaldic Slam: Performance Poetry in the Norwegian Royal Court

open access: yes, 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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Peaceful Alliances: The Collocative Policy of friþ- in Old Germanic Poetry

open access: yesRhesis
This article examines the collocative behaviour of the Old English term friþ- ‘peace’, ‘protection’, and its Old Saxon and Old Norse cognates across the poetic traditions preserved in these languages. Building on the methodological framework established
Veronka Szoke
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Compositional Techniques and Perceptions of Authorship in Skaldic Poetry: Alliterative and Hending Word Constellations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In order to investigate the compositional techniques of skaldic poetry and determine if any oral formulae or other compositional methods played a role in the creation of skaldic poetry, I have collected the alliterating and rhyming words from 1486 ...
Nyquist, Cole Erik
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Relational Data Modelling of Textual Corpora: The Skaldic Project and its Extensions

open access: yes, 2015
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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Contextualizing the 'Knútsdrápur': Skaldic Praise-Poetry at the Court of Cnut

open access: yes, 2001
It is generally recognized that during the reign of Cnut the Danish king's court came to represent the focal point for skaldic composition and patronage in the Norse-speaking world.
Townend, M.
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