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5. A Poet in Search of an Audience: The Diminishing Prestige-Value of Skaldic Poetry
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Contextualizing the Knútsdrápur: skaldic praise-poetry at the court of Cnut
Anglo-Saxon England, 2001It is generally recognized that during the reign of Cnut the Danish king's court came to represent the focal point for skaldic composition and patronage in the Norse-speaking world. According to the later Icelandic Skáldatal or ‘List of Poets’, no fewer than eight skalds were remembered as having composed for Cnut: Sigvatr Þórðarson, Óttarr svarti ...
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Genre-dependent metonymy in Norse skaldic poetry
Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 2008This article describes a metonymic process which is common in skaldic verse, but rare in everyday language. This process allows one member of a category to stand for another (for example, SEA is referred to by the name of another member of BODIES OF WATER, such as `river' or `fjord'). This process has previously been called `metaphor' (cf.
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ON THE FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GENRES IN SKALDIC POETRY
RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" SeriesThe article analyses the functional characteristics of the main genres of skaldic poetry: panegyric verse, memorial poems (erfidrápur), shield poems (skjaldardrápur), head-ransom verse (höfuðlausn), love poetry (mansöngr) and libellous poems (níð). Olga Freidenberg’s conception of the salvational and chthonic functions of the word is applied to the ...
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Skaldic Poetry as Christian Propaganda
A detailed literary study of fourteenth-century poetry composed in honour of a controversial thirteenth-century bishop. Vernacular poetry was a powerful influence in fourteenth-century Icelandic elite literary culture, even to the extent of providing the means of elevating a local bishop, Guðmundr Arason, to sainthood.openaire +1 more source
PLAYING WITH THE CANON AS AN ICONIC DEVICE IN SKALDIC POETRY
RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, 2021Denis A. Golovanenko, Fedor B. Uspenskii
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Norse-Icelandic Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages - an electronic edition
2001This presentation aims to describe an international project to edit the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry and to outline some issues related to electronic aspects of the project, both in its organisation and in its publication. Prof. Clunies Ross will outline the nature of the project and the place of the electronic edition.
Wills, Tarrin, Clunies Ross, Margaret
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Consonance and Dissonance in Skaldic Poetry on War and Peace
<em>Fiat pax.</em> Le désir de paix dans la littérature médiévale, 2023openaire +1 more source