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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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5. A Poet in Search of an Audience: The Diminishing Prestige-Value 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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The Aesthetics of Concealment and Revelation in the Skaldic Poetry of Kári Sölmundarson
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Chapter 7 War Fronts and Scattered Spear Showers: The Meteorology of Battle in Skaldic Poetry
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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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The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2012
Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade
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Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade
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Mediaevistik, 2018
The Skaldic Editing Project, as it was familiarly called until print production began in 2007, is the most comprehensive editorial undertaking in medieval Scandinavian studies in many decades. Volume 8, here under review, is the fifth to see publication in the planned series of nine, and is devoted to skaldic verse (broadly understood) incorporated in
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The Skaldic Editing Project, as it was familiarly called until print production began in 2007, is the most comprehensive editorial undertaking in medieval Scandinavian studies in many decades. Volume 8, here under review, is the fifth to see publication in the planned series of nine, and is devoted to skaldic verse (broadly understood) incorporated in
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PLAYING WITH THE CANON AS AN ICONIC DEVICE IN SKALDIC POETRY
RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, 2021Denis A. Golovanenko, Fedor B. Uspenskii
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