Peaceful Alliances: The Collocative Policy of friþ- in Old Germanic Poetry
RhesisThis article examines the collocative behaviour of the Old English term friþ- ‘peace’, ‘protection’, and its Old Saxon and Old Norse cognates across the poetic traditions preserved in these languages. Building on the methodological framework established
Veronka Szoke
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Jarl Sigvaldi and the battle of Svoldr in saga tradition [PDF]
, 2009 The battle of Svoldr is one of the most outstanding momentsin saga tradition, which preserves memory about Viking AgeScandinavia. The fame of the battle was strictly connected with particularpersonas involved in the conflict, among them the Norwegian ...
Morawiec, Jakub
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On the Psalms as a Primary Source for the Old English Exodus [PDF]
, 2015 An argument for the biblical Psalms as a primary source for the Old English poem Exodus
Nolen, Ricky L.
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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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Symbols of protection : the significance of animal-ornamented shields in early Anglo-Saxon England [PDF]
, 2005 The significance of shields with animal ornament on the boss and/or board in early Anglo-Saxon society is sought in the coincidence of artefactual, stylistic and iconographic symbolism.
Dickinson, T.M.
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Роль співця у києворуській та скальдичній поезії доби Середньовіччя (на прикладі «Слова о полку Ігоревім») [PDF]
, 2010 Basing on Dmitriy Likhachov’s research we hypothesize the existence of professional secular poetry in ancient Russian literature. Comparing the role of scalds in Scandinavian society and the functions of «The Tale of Igor’s Campaign» author we defined ...
Блик О.
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"Las kenningar" (1933), by Jorge Luis Borges: The skaldic poetry of Iceland in the crossroads between ultraism and baroque poetry [PDF]
, 2016 Uno de los primeros textos en que se materializó el interés de Borges por la literatura germánica medieval es «Las kenningar», un ensayo publicado en 1933 por Francisco Colombo en el que tratará de analizar un tipo singular de metáfora «los kenningar ...
Fernández Moreno, Sergio
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Is literary language a development of ordinary language? [PDF]
, 2010 Contemporary literary linguistics is guided by the 'Development Hypothesis' which says that literary language is formed and regulated by developing only the elements, rules and constraints of ordinary language.
Fabb, Nigel
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Studia Metrica et PoeticaThis paper is the third in a three-part series that develops a model for the background of rhyme in Old Norse dróttkvætt poetry as a formalization of the same form of rhyme found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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Jak Duch Boży staje sie bożym wiatrem, czyli czy tłumacz Biblii jest twórczy? Uwagi na marginesie szwedzkiego przekładu Mojż. 1:2 w Biblii 2000 (Bibel 2000) [PDF]
, 2016 The first verses of Genesis have been translated into Swedish and many other languages several times and in quite different ways. The variations presuppose correspondingly distinct images of the very first moments of creation and, in consequence ...
Maciejewski, Witold
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