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Studying some aspects of the viking age in english-language historiography

open access: yesИзвестия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки
Background. The topic of the research is relevant due to the fact that Russian scholarship has so far paid little attention to the problem of updating the historiographical experience of English-language authors on the particular issues of the Viking Age.
D.G. Smyattskij
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The Vikings and their importance for the North Atlantic (Iceland, Greenland, North America) from the beginning of the expansion in the 9th century until the extinction around 1400

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2020
The Viking colony in West Greenland has always interested historians, archaeologists and climatologists. How could the community of 4,000-5,000 Viking peasants survived in Arctic Greenland for 425 years (985-1400), and why did they finally disappeared ...
Christensen Carsten Sander
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Ofermod and Aristocratic Chivalry in J.R.R. Tolkien\u27s The Lord of the Rings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper explores connections between J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1953 Essays and Studies publication The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son and representations of ofermod and aristocratic “chivalry” in The Lord of the Rings.
Dunai, Amber
core   +1 more source

Spartan Daily September 30, 2009 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Volume 133, Issue 17https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1285/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Changing ideas of bodily cleanliness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The modern bathroom reflects Western ideas on the handling of bodily wastes, and consequently ideas of cleanliness. Taking a historical study as the point of departure, the purpose of this paper is to understand the extent to which the idea of ...
Quitzau, Maj-Britt
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A treat‐to‐target approach for obesity management: A post hoc analysis of the SURMOUNT‐5 trial

open access: yesDiabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction With new advancements in obesity medicine, clarity on goals and expectations for successful disease management is limited. This post hoc analysis assessed application of proposed treat‐to‐target (TtT) thresholds for obesity to the outcome measures of SURMOUNT‐5, which randomised participants with obesity to tirzepatide or ...
Carel W. le Roux   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pagãos fictícios, feiticeiros imaginários, alteridades literárias: As sagas islandesas como fonte historiográfica e sua representação do mundo pré-cristão

open access: yesDiálogos, 2016
Resumo: Meu objetivo aqui é indagar como devemos entender a literatura das sagas, textos em prosa islandeses da Idade Medía; O ápice da produção de sagas ocorreu entre a segunda metade do século XIII e a primeira metade do XIV.
Santiago Barreiro
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The Crescent Student Newspaper, November 11, 2005

open access: yes, 2002
Student newspaper of George Fox University.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/2291/thumbnail ...
George Fox University Archives
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
wiley   +1 more source

The Vikings, victims of their own success?

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2015
The Viking age as a time of adventures and violence never ceases to fascinate the public. Both aspects remain central to the definitions of the period which can be found in recent introductions to the topic.
Sarah Croix
doaj   +1 more source

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