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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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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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Peaceful Alliances: The Collocative Policy of friþ- in Old Germanic Poetry

Rhesis
This 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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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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Grund gulls [ground of gold]: The Trope of Woman as “Land” in Skaldic Poetry from the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries

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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Gender and Genre: Short and Long Forms in the Saga Literature [PDF]

, 2008
Page range: 261 ...
Harris, Joseph
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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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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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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology III: The Old Norse Poetic Ecology

Studia Metrica et Poetica
This 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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