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The Skaldic Project and Lexicon Poeticum [PDF]
Revista de Poética Medieval, 2019 This paper describes a digital project to edit the Old Norse poetic corpus known as skaldic poetry, composed between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. The Skaldic Project started in 1997 with the first editions published in 2007, and 75% of the corpus ...
Tarrin Wills
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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
Marold, Edith, Edith Marold
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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 ...
Ferreira, Annemari, Annemari Ferreira
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Grund gulls [ground of gold]: The Trope of Woman as “Land” in Skaldic Poetry from the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries [PDF]
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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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages [PDF]
Mondes normands médiévaux, 2014 Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages Responsables du projet/Project leaders : Clunies Ross Margaret (mcr@arts.usyd.edu.au) Établissement principal/Main institution : University of Sidney Projet en cours/Project in progress Description : The ...
Rédaction
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Compositional Techniques and Perceptions of Authorship in Skaldic Poetry: Alliterative and Hending Word Constellations [PDF]
, 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 ...
Nyquist, Cole Erik
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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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Scripta Islandica, 2023 The idea that Old Norse poetry derives from an oral tradition is commonly accepted in contemporary research. However, more detailed considerations of the consequences of this notion for our understanding of specific poems and their context are seldomly ...
Simon Nygaard
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Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023 This paper is the first in a three-part series or tryptic that argues for the Old Germanic origins of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter. This meter requires rhymes on the stressed syllables of two words within a six-position line, irrespective of ...
Frog
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Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023 This paper is the second in a three-part series on the distinctive type of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter, argued to have emerged through the metricalization of uses of rhyme within a short line found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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