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Weaving words: Law and performance in early Nordic tradition [PDF]
, 2013 The reference to malrunar or 'speech runes' in Sigrdrifumal suggests a performative aspect to the practice of early Germanic law that transcends the swearing of oaths and the reciting of law codes attested to by literary sources.
Mees, B
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Hesiod and Havamal : Transitions and the transmission of wisdom [PDF]
, 2014 In this article I too offer a comparative analysis. However, I step away from the Near East and away from any suggestion of a chain of transmission. I aim to offer fresh insights into Hesiod's Works and Days by comparing it to the Eddic Havamal, a poem ...
Canevaro, Lilah Grace
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Norse-Icelandic Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages - an electronic edition
, 2001 This 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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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
Mondes normands médiévaux, 2014 openaire +2 more sources
, 2014 In order to investigate the compositional techniques of skaldic poetry and determine if any oral formulae or other compositional methods played a role in the creation of skaldic poetry, I have collected the alliterating and rhyming words from 1486 couplets by 68 different poets, including 19 anonymous poems, and investigated whether any of these word ...
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Kate Heslop. Viking Mediologies: A New History of Skaldic Poetics.
Scandinavian-Canadian StudiesKatelin Parsons
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