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Home thoughts of abroad: Ohthere’s Voyage in its Anglo‐Saxon context
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 256-288, May 2020., 2020 The Old English text known as Ohthere’s Voyage is regarded as a key source for Norwegian history. Consequently, the context of its composition and inclusion in the Old English Orosius has often been overlooked. This article demonstrates that the text cannot be separated from the processes that shaped it during its early transmission.
Ben Allport
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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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Painful Love and Desire in Skírnismál
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : The Eddic poem Skírnismál depicts erotically associated suffering in several instances. The god Freyr is filled with pain and grief when he first lays eyes on the beautiful jǫtunn maiden Gerðr.
Daniel Sävborg
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The Skaldic Project and Lexicon Poeticum
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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BOOK REVIEW: FLAVIA TEOC, „PERSPECTIVA SOFIANICĂ ÎN SAGA REGELUI HARALD. STUDIU PRIVIND ARTICULAREA SENSULUI DIN UNGHIUL TEXTEMELOR KENNING”, CLUJ-NAPOCA: CASA CĂRȚII DE ȘTIINȚĂ, 2020, 211 PP. [PDF]
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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What Did King Hákon góði Do before the Battle at Fitjar and after the Battle at Avaldsnes?
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : The starting point for this paper is the enigmatic stanza 6 of the Norwegian skald Guthormr sindri's mid-900s poem Hákonardrápa. This stanza depicts the Norwegian king Hákon góði clashing his spears together over the heads of the fallen warriors after ...
Andreas Nordberg
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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]
, 2008 'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies' uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies ...
Hall, Alaric
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