Is literary language a development of ordinary language? [PDF]
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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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]
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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'The Eagle's Oars are Feathers' - Skaldic Practice and Perception Beyond Performance [PDF]
One of the perennial mysteries of Old Norse skaldic poetry is how skalds learned to compose such complex verses. The medieval Icelandic sagas feature a multitude of characters who compose skaldic poetry, many of whom appear
Haley-Halinski, Kathryn
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Lost and found in translation: the case of alliteration [PDF]
The paper examines the transmission of alliteration in Estonian and Russian translated verse. The main focus is on the translation of alliterative epic, on the one hand, and more recent literary alliteration, on the other hand.
Lotman, Maria-Kristiina, Lotman, Mihhail
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"Odějme Tóra v nevěsty úbor!" O genderových stereotypech severské společnosti v době Vikingské éry
This article, based on Scandinavian narrative sources (tha sagas), skaldic and eddic poetry as well as medieval law-codes, presents a particular view of the Scandinavian gender history during the Viking Age.
Lenka Doová
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Gender and Genre: Short and Long Forms in the Saga Literature [PDF]
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Harris, Joseph
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Saga d’Egil, trad. Torfi H. Tulinius, Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 2021
Christelle Fairise
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The threatening wave: Norse poetry and the Scottish Isles [PDF]
The poetry discussed in this paper presents a range of responses to sailing around the northern parts of the British Isles, by poets more or less familiar with these routes but also with Norway, Iceland and sea-ways much further afield.
Jesch, Judith
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Den tidlige kirkeorganisasjonen i Eidsivatingslagen
This article presents a new interpretation and identification of a particular type of church in inland East-Norway (Eidsivatingslagen), known in Old Norse as the þriðjungkirkja.
Frode Iversen, Jan Brendalsmo
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Prototypes and structures in eddic poetry [PDF]
Seiichi Suzuki, The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry: Common Germanic Inheritance and North Germanic Innovation (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Band 86). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014.
Árnason, Kristján
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