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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
William Sayers
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Consonance and Dissonance in Skaldic Poetry on War and Peace
<em>Fiat pax.</em> Le désir de paix dans la littérature médiévale, 2023 Francesco Sangriso
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, 2014 In order to investigate the compositional techniques of skaldic poetry and determine if any oral formulae or other compositional methods played a role in the creation of skaldic poetry, I have collected the alliterating and rhyming words from 1486 couplets by 68 different poets, including 19 anonymous poems, and investigated whether any of these word ...
Cole Erik Nyquist
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Correction: How Formulaic is a Skaldic Formula? On the Function of Echoes in Dróttkvætt Poetry [PDF]
NeophilologusBianca Patria
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Archaic Martial Traditions in High Medieval Scandinavia: A Glimpse of Viking Age Warfare?
Viking, 2021 Most written evidence regarding warfare in Viking Age Scandinavia originates either from contemporaneous chronicles – recorded by those at the receiving end of Norse attacks – from skaldic poetry, or from high medieval Scandinavian texts.
Beñat Elortza Larrea
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Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : No one shows much surprise at the many kennings referring to poetry and the mead of poetry that are found in the Old Norse corpus of poetry. There is, however, another group of rather puzzling kennings, which seem to have been taken mainly at face ...
Ingunn Ásdísardóttir
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Gilds, states and societies in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 627-662, November 2020., 2020 The early medieval gilds of north‐west Europe were very different from their later medieval descendants. They were not specifically urban or economic in focus, instead being based on religious devotion, feasting and mutual protection, usually among members united by status and geography.
Rory Naismith
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‘The flowing-haired friend of the fire of altars’
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : There are very few sources, other than material remains and spatial arrangements revealed by archaeological excavation, that can give modern researchers access to the thought-world of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. Some skaldic poetry presumed to
Margaret Clunies Ross
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