Quando le valchirie cantano in nederlandese: Het weefgezang der walkyren di A.C.W. Staring
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
doaj +1 more source
Gade Kari Ellen & Edith Marold (eds.). Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (SKALD 3). Poetry from Treatises on Poetics (2 vol.). Turnhout : Brepols Publishers, 2017 [PDF]
Pins Cyril de. Gade Kari Ellen & Edith Marold (eds.). Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (SKALD 3). Poetry from Treatises on Poetics (2 vol.). Turnhout : Brepols Publishers, 2017. In: Histoire Épistémologie Langage, tome 40, fascicule 1, 2018.
Pins, Cyril de
core
"Las kenningar" (1933), by Jorge Luis Borges: The skaldic poetry of Iceland in the crossroads between ultraism and baroque poetry [PDF]
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
core
Saga d’Egil, trad. Torfi H. Tulinius, Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 2021
Christelle Fairise
doaj +1 more source
The Role of the Bards in Ancient Russian and Medieval Skaldic Poetry (on the Example of «The Tale of Igor’s Campaign») [PDF]
Basing on Dmitriy Likhachov’s research we hypothesize the existence of professional secular poetry in ancient Russian literature. Comparing the role of scalds in Scandinavian society and the functions of «The Tale of Igor’s Campaign» author we defined ...
Блик О.
core
One god and one king: The unification of Norway according to Snorri Sturluson
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
doaj +1 more source
Queen Ástrí∂r and Sigvatr Thór∂arson: A Political Alliance. Three Skaldic Stanzas in praise of Queen Ástrí∂r in Snorri's Heimskringla [PDF]
Queen Ástriðr and Sigvatr Þórðarson: a political alliance. Three skaldic stanzas in Snorri’s Heimskringla This paper analyzes Sigvatr Þórðarson’s stanzas in praise of queen Ástriðr - the daughter of Óláfr Skottkonung of Sweden and the wife of Óláfr ...
Lombardi, MARIA CRISTINA
core
Peaceful Alliances: The Collocative Policy of friþ- in Old Germanic Poetry
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
doaj +1 more source
The King is dead, long live the King : commemoration in skaldic verse of the Viking age [PDF]
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 early
Goeres, Erin Michelle +1 more
core

