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Religion in the Viking Age Moral Economy

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
: On those rare occasions when Old Norse religion and morality are set alongside one another, the notion of a non-Christian morality is typically dismissed or Old Norse religion is viewed as actively holding back moral progress.
Declan Taggart
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Flavia Teoc, Perspectiva sofianică în Saga regelui Harald. Studiu privind articularea sensului din unghiul textemelor kenning, Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărții de Știință, 2020, 211 p.

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023
Perspectiva sofianică în Saga regelui Harald.  Studiu privind articularea sensului din unghiul textemelor kenning (The Sophian Perspective in Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar), by PhD Flavia Teoc, proposes an in-depth analysis of the kenning metaphors from a ...
Daniel RUSU
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae I: When is a Valkyrie Like a Spear?

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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The many virtues of the strange Type Eε. Metre, Semantics and intertextuality in dróttkvætt

Filologia Germanica
The pattern which Eduard Sievers defined as “Eε” is the only line-type in dróttkvætt to have a trisyllabic word in the final metrical positions 4-6, thus deviating from the otherwise ubiquitous disyllabic closing (positions 5-6).
BIANCA PATRIA
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Visions et spectres dans la littérature norroise : aperçus sur la culture germanique ancienne

Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2012
Ancient Germanic culture was kept in an exceptionally accurate way in Old Norse literature such as it has been recorded by medieval Icelandic clerics.
Daniel Lacroix
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Haraldr Sigurðarson’s arrival in Rus’ and his participation in the campaign against Poland in 1031

Historisk Tidsskrift, 2020
In 1031, Haraldr Sigurðarson, also known as harðráði, started his mercenary career, soon becoming one of the most famous Varangians and, later on, the Norwegian king.
Maciej Lubik
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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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Peaceful Alliances: The Collocative Policy of friþ- in Old Germanic Poetry

Rhesis
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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Grund gulls [ground of gold]: The Trope of Woman as “Land” in Skaldic Poetry from the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries

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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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology III: The Old Norse Poetic Ecology

Studia Metrica et Poetica
This paper is the third in a three-part series that develops a model for the background of rhyme in Old Norse dróttkvætt poetry as a formalization of the same form of rhyme found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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