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Bears, kennings and skaldic poetry
2023The article analyses those skaldic stanzas in Old Norse literature which present bear ...
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Skaldic Poetry – A Case Study: The Poetry of Torf-Einarr Rõgnvaldsson of Orkney
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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
Journal of English and Germanic PhilologyRussell Poole
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Chapter 2 A Wave of Sound: Rhythmicizing the Formal Artifice of Skaldic Poetry
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Contextualizing the Knútsdrápur: skaldic praise-poetry at the court of Cnut
Anglo-Saxon England, 2001It 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. According to the later Icelandic Skáldatal or ‘List of Poets’, no fewer than eight skalds were remembered as having composed for Cnut: Sigvatr Þórðarson, Óttarr svarti ...
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How Formulaic is a Skaldic Formula? On the Function of Echoes in Dróttkvætt Poetry
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
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ON THE FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GENRES IN SKALDIC POETRY
RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" SeriesThe article analyses the functional characteristics of the main genres of skaldic poetry: panegyric verse, memorial poems (erfidrápur), shield poems (skjaldardrápur), head-ransom verse (höfuðlausn), love poetry (mansöngr) and libellous poems (níð). Olga Freidenberg’s conception of the salvational and chthonic functions of the word is applied to the ...
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Genre-dependent metonymy in Norse skaldic poetry
Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 2008This 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.
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