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A SELECTION OF SKALDIC POEMS [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2016 Rendering skaldic poetry into another language is a challenge for translators. The main feature of this poetic system is its highly intricate form governed by rigid rules.
Elena A. Gurevich
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Skaldic Poetry across Borders. Sigvatr Þórðarson’s Austrfararvísur
Lea, 2023 The Austrfararvísur (Verses on a Journey to the East) could be defined as a poem of borders: in these vísur Sigvatr Þórðarson, the skald of Óláfr the Saint, narrates his crossing of various geographical, political, and religious borders.
Maria Cristina Lombardi
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The politics of performance in Viking Age skaldic poetry [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis examines the political functions of the performance of skaldic poetry during the Viking Age. It aims to establish the vital role that skaldic verse plays in the establishment and maintenance of power, as well as the importance of skaldic performance in the negotiation of that power in the inter-community relations between various courts ...
Annemari Ferreira
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae I: When is a Valkyrie Like a Spear? [PDF]
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014 This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realized.
- Frog
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Mythical and Metaphorical Landscapes in Skaldic Poetry [PDF]
European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 2017 AbstractIt is in vain that one looks for realistic descriptions of landscapes in skaldic poetry. There is no interest in the landscapes where the actions which are the only concerns of this genre take place. However, landscape features such as mountains, the sea, trees, caves or the sky are perceptible in the system of the kennings, yet only as more or
Edith Marold
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How Formulaic is a Skaldic Formula? On the Function of Echoes in Dróttkvætt Poetry [PDF]
NeophilologusAbstract This article addresses the notion of formulaicity and the question of its applicability to the Old Norse skaldic corpus, a substantial part of which belongs to the pre-literate period of poetic composition (c. 850–1150). With few exceptions, scholars maintain that formulaicity, intended as an aid in versification, played a limited ...
Bianca Patria
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Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2014 : Skaldic diction has long been noted for the many analogies it creates between the human body and the natural environment. One manifestation of this interchange occurs where women are referenced by kennings with base ...
Emily Osborne
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Impossibilia: Revista Internacional de Estudios Literarios, 2021 This paper contributes to a growing body of research investigating the role of translations in the post-medieval reception of Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
Edel PORTER
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Genre-dependent metonymy in Norse skaldic poetry
Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 2008 This article describes a metonymic process which is common in skaldic verse, but rare in everyday language. This process allows one member of a category to stand for another (for example, SEA is referred to by the name of another member of BODIES OF WATER, such as `river' or `fjord'). This process has previously been called `metaphor' (cf.
Karen Sullivan
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Norse-Icelandic Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages - an electronic edition
, 2001 This presentation aims to describe an international project to edit the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry and to outline some issues related to electronic aspects of the project, both in its organisation and in its publication. Prof. Clunies Ross will outline the nature of the project and the place of the electronic edition.
Tarrin Wills, Margaret Clunies Ross
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