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Religion in the Viking Age Moral Economy

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
: On those rare occasions when Old Norse religion and morality are set alongside one another, the notion of a non-Christian morality is typically dismissed or Old Norse religion is viewed as actively holding back moral progress.
Declan Taggart
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Guðbrandur Vigfússon as an editor of Old Norse-Icelandic literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Guðbrandur Vigfússon, an Icelander born in Galtardalur, Dalasýsla, was without doubt one of the most influential scholars of Old Norse studies of his day.
Bjork   +8 more
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae II: Base-Word-Determinant Indexing

open access: yesStudia Metrica et Poetica, 2014
This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised.
- Frog
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Flavia Teoc, Perspectiva sofianică în Saga regelui Harald. Studiu privind articularea sensului din unghiul textemelor kenning, Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărții de Știință, 2020, 211 p.

open access: yesStudia 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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Punctuating Old English Poetry: Challenges and Strategies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
As in other early language traditions, premodern English poetry was written out with very light punctuation. The sparsity of manuscript punctuation appears especially problematic in the period before 1200, when poetry in English lacked visual linebreaks.
Eric Weiskott
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Parallelism and Orders of Signification (Parallelism Dynamics I) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay sets out an approach to parallelism in verbal art as a semiotic phenomenon that can operate at multiple orders (or levels) of signification. It examines parallelism in the sounds through which words are communicated, in language communicated ...
Frog
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A Roll of the Dice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Series introduction to New Trad literary journal, dedicated to new poems that make use of archaic ...
Joshua Mostafa
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The many virtues of the strange Type Eε. Metre, Semantics and intertextuality in dróttkvætt

open access: yesFilologia Germanica
The pattern which Eduard Sievers defined as “Eε” is the only line-type in dróttkvætt to have a trisyllabic word in the final metrical positions 4-6, thus deviating from the otherwise ubiquitous disyllabic closing (positions 5-6).
BIANCA PATRIA
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Visions et spectres dans la littérature norroise : aperçus sur la culture germanique ancienne

open access: yesCahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2012
Ancient Germanic culture was kept in an exceptionally accurate way in Old Norse literature such as it has been recorded by medieval Icelandic clerics.
Daniel Lacroix
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Nem Tui, nem Gibraltar: Óláfr Haraldsson e a Península Ibérica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
According to Heimskringla, Óláfr Haraldsson, king and patron saint of Norway, sailed to the Straits of Gibraltar. It is told that he won several battles along the journey, some of which have been placed in Galicia. There are even those who say that Óláfr
Pires, Helio
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