Skaldic Poetics and the Making of the Sagas of Icelanders [PDF]
, 2015 Page range: 117 ...
Nordal, Guðrún
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Jómsvíkinga Sǫgur and Jómsvíkinga Drápur: texts, contexts and intertexts [PDF]
, 2014 Using theories of intertextuality the paper explores the implications of the complex transmission of Jómsvíkinga saga, with its multiple manuscripts, versions and cross-references in other texts.
Jesch, Judith
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Runes and words: runic lexicography in context [PDF]
, 2013 The paper begins by noting the lack of a comprehensive dictionary of Scandinavian runic inscriptions, as well as the absence of the runic evidence from most dictionaries of the early Scandinavian languages, and considers possible reasons for this. Runic
Jesch, Judith
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Haraldr Sigurðarson’s arrival in Rus’ and his participation in the campaign against Poland in 1031
Historisk Tidsskrift, 2020 In 1031, Haraldr Sigurðarson, also known as harðráði, started his mercenary career, soon becoming one of the most famous Varangians and, later on, the Norwegian king.
Maciej Lubik
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Forgotten Laxdæla poetry : a study and an edition of Tyrfingur Finnsson's Vísur uppá Laxdæla sögu [PDF]
, 2017 The paper discusses the metre and the diction of a previously unpublished small poem about characters of Laxdæla saga, composed in 18th century. The stanzas are ostensibly in skaldic dróttkvætt; the analysis shows it to be an imitation of the classical ...
Sverdlov, Ilya, Vanherpen, Sofie
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Thomas Gray and the Goths: philology, poetry, and the uses of the Norse past in eighteenth-century England [PDF]
, 2014 In 1761 Thomas Gray composed two loose translations of Old Norse poems: The Fatal Sisters and The Descent of Odin. This article reconstructs Gray’s complex engagement with the world of seventeenth-century Scandinavian scholarship: recovering the texts he
Williams, Kelsey Jackson
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Teaching Latin in medieval Iceland: an overview
The Journal of Classics TeachingScholarship on Scandinavian linguistics has long recognised an indigenous metalinguistic tradition, rooted in runic writing and skaldic poetry, that developed independently of Latin influence.
Michele Longo
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On the origin of the oldest borrowed Christian terminology in Icelandic [PDF]
, 2016 This article deals with the origin of the oldest core of borrowed Christian terminology still extant in Icelandic, i.e. those words which were introduced in Old Norse in the period ranging from the first evangelical missions in Scandinavia (9th c.) to ...
Tarsi, Matteo
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The Emergence and Transformation of Medieval Cumbria [PDF]
, 2014 This is the accepted manuscript. The final version's available from Edinburgh University Press at http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/shr.2014.0216. There has long been uncertainty about the relationship between the polities known as Strathclyde
Edmonds, Fiona
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Romancing the Rune: Aspects of Literacy in Early Scandinavian Orality [PDF]
, 2008 Page range: 319 ...
Harris, Joseph
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