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Jakubczyk, Radosław. "Guðbrandur Vigfússon as an editor of Old Norse-Icelandic literature." Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 21, no. 1 (2016): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fsp-2016-0046.

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Abstract Guðbrandur Vigfússon, an Icelander born in Galtardalur, Dalasýsla, was without doubt one of the most influential scholars of Old Norse studies of his day. His diplomatic edition of Flateyjarbók, his critical edition of Sturlunga saga, and his anthology An Icelandic Prose Reader are still of use to those without access to the relevant manuscripts. In this essay, I would like to survey his career (in Copenhagen and Oxford) as an editor of Old Norse-Icelandic texts and the legacy that he has left to his successors in the field of Old Norse studies.

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Visovan, Cristina. "Old Norse gods in contemporary Norwegian novels." Vikings: New Inquiries into an Age-Old Theme 9, no. 2 (2017): 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.53604/rjbns.v9i2_4.

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Old Norse mythology is one of the most prolific fields in modern times. From a scholarly renewed interest to a more popular based reception, the old myths and gods seem to have been revived. The following article deals with the representation and role of two of the Old Norse gods, Odin and Ty, in contemporary Norwegian literature. It discusses in a comparative way the image of the Old Norse gods as presented by the written sources about the Viking mythology, The Poetic Edda and The Prose Edda, and by the contemporary novels that have them as main characters. Contemporary problems that trouble

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Jackson, Tatjana. "“Sea-Kings” in Old Norse-Icelandic Sources." ISTORIYA 15, no. 5 (139) (2024): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840031428-9.

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The paper deals with the “sea kings” who are mentioned in the works of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. An attempt is made to present all possible references contained in the sources: in sagas of various types and þættir, as well as in treatises on poetics and in skaldic poetry. As can be seen from prose works, the definition sækonungr “sea king” could be applied to the sons of local petty kings who during the summers participated in Viking campaigns but spent the winters on land and completed their military career as heirs of their fathers or rulers of captured territories. The set of names of

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Krakow, Annett. "The Polish interest in the Eddas — Joachim Lelewel’s Edda of 1828." European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 50, no. 1 (2020): 111–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2020-0006.

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AbstractIn the second half of the 18th century and early 19th century, a rising interest in Old Norse literature outside the Nordic countries could be noted that, to a great deal, focused on the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda as sources for Norse mythology. This interest is also reflected in the works of the Polish historian Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861) who, in 1807 and 1828, published translations and retellings of the Poetic and the Prose Edda. These were based on French, German and Latin translations. The second edition of 1828 is characterised by a more comprehensive section with eddic poet

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Sheffield, Ann. "Remembering Heathen Women in Medieval Icelandic Literature." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 28 (December 1, 2021): 122–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/scancan204.

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ABSTRACT: Several Icelandic texts from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries depict female characters from the pre-Christian past. In both poetry and prose, these heathen women are often portrayed as recalling the old, pre-Christian religion or the magical practices associated with it. Within this literature, different genres correlate with strata of cultural memory that are associated with different periods in Norse history and pre-history. This link between genre and era is largely independent of the actual dates of composition of the texts or the historicity of the events they describe. A

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Grimstad, Kaaren. "Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog/A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose, 1: A-Bam.Helle Degnbol." Speculum 73, no. 2 (1998): 501. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2887187.

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Antonsson. "The Construction of Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka: A Case of Typological Thinking in Early Old Norse Prose." Scandinavian Studies 90, no. 4 (2018): 485. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.90.4.0485.

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Lehkyi, M. І. "“THIS IS A SYNTHESIS IN THE SUPREME UNDERSTANDING OF THIS WORD”: IVAN FRANKO ON THE WAY TO MODERNISM." Literary Studies, no. 62 (2022): 75–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2520-6346.1(62).75-86.

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The article considers the prose of Ivan Franko of the late XIX – early XX centuries. in the context of the processes of renewal of Ukrainian literature. In the prose works of the writer are clearly visible features of such stylistic varieties of modernism as decadence, symbolism, impressionism, expressionism, surrealism. In many ways, modernism seems to return (at another level of development) to the “old” romanticism, including the independence of the individual from the social conditions of its existence, the abstraction of the individual from the general, the unusualness and singularity of

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Antonsson, Haki. "Kirsten Wolf, The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 405. $80. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4621-6." Speculum 91, no. 1 (2016): 272–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/684467.

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de Leeuw van Weenen, Andrea. "Old Icelandic veri." Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 82, no. 4 (2022): 481–529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340274.

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Abstract In Modern Icelandic the form veri of the verb vera ‘to be’ is seen as a subjunctive expressing a wish. Treating Old Norse veri, earlier vesi, as an imperative of the third person simplifies the vera paradigm. A survey of the oldest attestations shows that veri not only fits qua form in the imperative paradigm, but also behaves like an imperative and expresses a command. The hypothesis that veri is an imperative can be extended to: Old Norse had an imperative of the 3rd person consisting of stem+i. What usually is called the use of the 3rd person subjunctive to fill in for the missing

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Hui, Jonathan Y. H. "Cinderella in Old Norse Literature." Folklore 129, no. 4 (2018): 353–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2018.1515207.

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Mcarthur, Holly. "Masculinities in Old Norse Literature." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 122, no. 4 (2023): 554–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/1945662x.122.4.12.

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Merkelbach, Rebecca. "Discourse in Old Norse Literature." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 122, no. 2 (2023): 288–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/1945662x.122.2.11.

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Þorgeirsson, Haukur. "Late Placement of the Finite Verb in Old Norse Fornyrðislag Meter." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 24, no. 3 (2012): 233–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542712000037.

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In Old Norse poetry, there is a syntactic difference between bound clauses (subordinate clauses and main clauses introduced by a con-junction) and unbound clauses (main clauses not introduced by a conjunction). In bound clauses, the finite verb is often placed late in the sentence, violating the V2 requirement upheld in prose. In unbound clauses, the V2 requirement is normally adhered to, but in fornyrðislag poetry, late placement of the finite verb is occasionally found. Hans Kuhn explained these instances as a result of influence from West Germanic poetry. The present article argues that the

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Näsström, Britt-Mari. "Magical Music in Old Norse Literature." Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 16 (January 1, 1996): 229–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67231.

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No society ever existed without performing music, and most cultures display many variants of music. Music also played and still plays an important part in different religious rites. From the days of yore, music has been intimately connected with the cult, whether it is performed as epic or lyric expressions. The Old Norse society was no exception to this statement and early finds from as far back as the Bronze Age reveal that different instrument were used in daily life. The most conspicuous specimens from this time are the bronze lures, which probably are depicted on the rock-carvings. All th

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Larrington, Carolyne, and Margaret Clunies Ross. "Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society." Modern Language Review 99, no. 4 (2004): 1122. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3738601.

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Blaxter, Tam. "Gender and language change in Old Norse sentential negatives." Language Variation and Change 27, no. 3 (2015): 349–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394515000125.

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AbstractOne consistent finding across sociolinguistic studies is the tendency for female speakers to lead in ongoing change. Different explanations have been proposed for this and a key method of testing these explanations is to identify whether the pattern occurs in the languages of a wider range of societies than have been studied thus far. Historical societies are relatively understudied in this regard, but undertaking variationist research into gender in historical varieties presents many challenges. One way to overcome these is to examine variation internal to fiction data. This paper pre

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Jakobsson, Ármann. "Watch Out for the Skin Deep: Medieval Icelandic Transformations." Arts 12, no. 1 (2022): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts12010005.

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Icelandic prose narratives from the 13th and 14th centuries are replete with instances of metamorphosis, humans transforming into animals, or changing shape in an indeterminate way. Sources indicate that the transformation is not merely corporeal but is also spiritual. In this paper, the Old Norse lexicon of transformation, such as the words hamrammr, hamslauss, and hamstoli, will be closely examined.

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Pálsson, Hermann. "The Sami People in Old Norse Literature." Nordlit 3, no. 1 (1999): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.2143.

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O'Donoghue, H. "Review: Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society." Review of English Studies 55, no. 221 (2004): 605–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/55.221.605.

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Taylor, Marvin. "Some Fable Material in Old Norse Literature." NOWELE Volume 31/32 (November 1997) 31-32 (November 1, 1997): 407–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/nowele.31-32.31tay.

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Burge, Katrina. "Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society (review)." Parergon 22, no. 2 (2005): 204–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2006.0004.

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Fardin, Alice. "Salvation and Damnation in Old Norse Literature." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 124, no. 1 (2025): 109–11. https://doi.org/10.5406/1945662x.124.1.05.

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Mortensen, Lars Boje. "The Sudden Success of Prose – a Comparative View of Greek, Latin, Old French and Old Norse." Medieval Worlds medieval worlds, Volume 5. 2017 (2017): 3–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no5_2017s3.

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Hermann. "Memory, Imagery, and Visuality in Old Norse Literature." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114, no. 3 (2015): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.114.3.0317.

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Wolf, Kirsten. "The Color Grey in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature." JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 108, no. 2 (2009): 222–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/egp.0.0044.

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Kupferschmied, Irene. "Haki Antonsson:Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature." European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 50, no. 1 (2020): 242–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2020-0016.

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Wolf, Kirsten. "The color brown in Old Norse-Icelandic literature." NOWELE / North-Western European Language Evolution 70, no. 1 (2017): 22–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/nowele.70.1.02wol.

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The article examines the use of the color brown in Old Norse-Icelandic literature, which is encoded by brúnn and jarpr. More specifically, it seeks to determine through linguistic categorization the objects about which brown is used and to determine on the basis of its frequency whether for Old Norse-Icelandic brown should be placed in the earlier stages of the evolution of color terms or if it should be assigned to the later stages. The data show that brúnn is the more frequently used term, though the earliest texts suggest that both brúnn and jarpr were contextually restricted. Gradually, br

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Novotná, Marie. "Revenants in Old Norse literature as embodied memory." AUC PHILOLOGICA 2020, no. 1 (2020): 9–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2020.17.

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Eriksen, Stefka G. ""Liquid Knowledge" in Old Norse Literature and Culture." Viator 49, no. 2 (2018): 169–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.viator.5.118207.

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Bennett, Lisa. "Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: a Critical Guide (review)." Parergon 23, no. 1 (2006): 146–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2006.0053.

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Wolf, Kirsten. "The Color Grey in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 108, no. 2 (2009): 222–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20722722.

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Adam, Virginie. "Eric Shane Bryan, Discourse in Old Norse Literature." Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 66, no. 263-264 (2023): 349–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ccm.14421.

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Adam, Virginie. "Eric Shane Bryan, Discourse in Old Norse Literature." Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 263-264, no. 3 (2024): 349–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/ccm.263.0349.

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Kalinke, Marianne. "The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 124, no. 2 (2025): 238–41. https://doi.org/10.5406/1945662x.124.2.10.

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Oberlin, Adam. "Dario Bullitta, Niðrstigningar saga: Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell”. Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic Series, 11. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017, pp. XIX, 203." Mediaevistik 31, no. 1 (2018): 394–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med012018_394.

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Alongside the source and contextual study promised by the title, this volume also delivers an edition and the first English translation of the two primary redactions of the Old Norse version of the Descensus Christi or Harrowing of Hell translated from the medieval tradition of the Evangelium Nicodemi or Acta Pilati (for a modern Norwegian translation and parallel normalized edition of the Old Icelandic text see Odd Einar Haugen, Norrøne tekster i utval, 2nd ed., Oslo: Gyldendal, 2001 [1st ed. 1994], pp. 250–65). While the texts themselves are short and have attracted relatively little attenti

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Glebova, Darya S. "What do they talk about “in fair words” in Old Norse-Icelandic literature?" Shagi / Steps 10, no. 2 (2024): 234–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2024-10-2-234-255.

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The paper analyses the use of the paroemia at mæla fagrt ok hyggja flátt (to speak fairly and to think falsely) in the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, focusing both on the paroemia and its derivative — the representation of the characters’ eloquence by the formula that they are speaking in “fair words” (mæla með fögrum orðum). At the heart of the research lies the obscure use of the paroemia in one of the sagas of Icelanders, Bjarnar saga hítdælakappa, where the paroemia’s function is difficult to interpret if it is read only against the general context of the saga. While often in the Old

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Johannsson, Ellert Thor, and Finnur Ágúst Ingimundarson. "Describing Inflectional Patterns of Nouns in Old Icelandic." Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications 4, no. 1 (2022): 260–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.11297.

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The Database of Old Icelandic Inflections (DOII) is a project at The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies (SÁM) at the University of Iceland with the goal to describe the inflectional patterns of Old Icelandic. DOII uses the same structure as the Database of Icelandic Morphology (DIM), which is an already developed digital resource. The linguistic data comes from A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP), a historical dictionary of the medieval language of Iceland and Norway. The first phase of the project focuses on simplex nouns. ONP lists over 2,400 simplex nouns with more than 10 cit

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Faulkes, Anthony, and Ian J. Kirby. "Bible Translation in Old Norse." Modern Language Review 83, no. 3 (1988): 802. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3731407.

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Lutz, Angelika. "The Use of Norse Loanwords in Late Old English Historical Poems." Anglia 140, no. 2 (2022): 190–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2022-0018.

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Abstract The use of Norse loanwords in Old English poetry seems to be restricted to historical poems in praise of prominent contemporaries. It is demonstrated that the few Norse loans in these poems neither contribute to the laudatory character of such texts nor serve as new, additional means of stylistic enrichment. Instead, the Norse loans in these late Old English historical poems can be shown to have been used to add factual plausibility to such poems as historical texts. This contrasts with the use of Norse loanwords in Middle English poems.

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Smith, Troy Wellington. "From Enthusiasm to Irony: Kierkegaard’s Reception of Norse Mythology and Literature." Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 23, no. 1 (2018): 223–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2018-0011.

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AbstractAlthough the reader of Either/Or is intended to be, at the very least, somewhat ambivalent towards the Kierkegaardian pseudonym A, I argue that this character’s enthusiasm for all things Old Norse is shared by the Kierkegaard of this period. Kierkegaard’s interest in his region’s romantic past, however, would be short-lived. As his authorship progressed from the aesthetic to the religious, he found himself in conflict with another titan of the Danish Golden Age, Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig. Since Grundtvig’s work dealt extensively with Norse mythology, Kierkegaard’s interest in

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Gunn, Nikolas. "Translating the Gospel in Viking Age England: The Evidence from Two Old Norse Loan Translations from Old English." Anglia 137, no. 4 (2019): 527–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2019-0052.

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Abstract A recent resurgence of interest in Old Norse linguistic borrowings in Old English has greatly expanded our knowledge of the contact situation between these two speech communities in the early medieval period and beyond. However, there are a significant number of words that have been considered borrowings in the “other” direction, i. e. from Old English to Old Norse, which have not attracted the same amount of attention in current scholarship. Much of this material requires reassessment and this paper provides a case study of two parallel compound formations in both languages – OE bærs

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Eriksen, Stefka G. "Emotional Religiosity and Religious Happiness in Old Norse Literature and Culture." Arkiv för nordisk filologi 133 (April 15, 2025): 53–84. https://doi.org/10.63420/anf.v133i.27787.

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The main aim of this article is to investigate whether and how the traditional Christian theological premise that “God is Happiness” was adapted to the social and ideological norms and aesthetics of Old Norse literature and culture. This is done by studying the motif of religious awakening in a variety of Old Norse genres, including primary and secondary translations of Latin sources, translations from Old French, and indigenous genres such as Bishops’ sagas, Icelandic family sagas, and legendary sagas. The main conclusion is that religious awakening is represented in a variety of ways in the

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Kjartansson, Helgi Skúli. "Sproti. Geta fornar skógarnytjar skýrt margslungið merkingarsvið?" Orð og tunga 20 (June 1, 2018): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.33112/ordogtunga.20.2.

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The Old Norse noun sproti(masc.) displays a variety of meanings, only some of which are preserved in Modern Icelandic. The present article seeks, largely on the basis of material from the Copenhagen Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP), to map the usage of the term and its compounds. Many of the occurrences in old texts have religious overtones, either Christian – partly as a translation of Lat. virga – or pagan – especially in connection with the god Óðinn, while others concern tales of magic and fantasy.Down-to-earth use of the term is too rare for its basic meaning to clearly occur. It is, h

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Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif, and Jenny Jochens. "Old Norse Images of Women." German Quarterly 71, no. 3 (1998): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/407706.

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Ruseckienė, Rasa. "That Rune Will Unlock Time’s Labyrinth…: Old Norse Themes and Motifs in George Mackay Brown’s Poetry." Scandinavistica Vilnensis, no. 14 (May 27, 2019): 113–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/scandinavisticavilnensis.2019.6.

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George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), an Orcadian poet, author and dramatist, was undoubtedly one of the finest Scottish creative voices of the twentieth century. He was greatly influenced by Old Norse literature, and this is reflected in his writings in many ways. The present article aims to trace and discuss Old Norse themes and motifs in Brown’s poetry. His rune poems, translations of the twelfthcentury skaldic verse, experimentation with skaldic kennings, as well as choosing saga personalities, such as Saint Magnus, Earl Rognvald of Orkney and others, as protagonists of the poems show the poet’

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Neidorf, Leonard, and Rafael J. Pascual. "Old Norse Influence on the Language of Beowulf: A Reassessment." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 31, no. 3 (2019): 298–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542718000144.

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This article undertakes the first systematic examination of Frank’s (1979, 1981, 1987, 1990, 2007b, 2008) claim that Old Norse influence is discernible in the language of Beowulf. It tests this hypothesis first by scrutinizing each of the alleged Nordicisms in Beowulf, then by discussing various theoretical considerations bearing on its plausibility. We demonstrate that the syntactic, morphological, lexical, and semantic peculiarities that Frank would explain as manifestations of Old Norse influence are more economically and holistically explained as consequences of archaic composition. We the

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Van Epps, Briana, Gerd Carling, and Yair Sapir. "Gender Assignment in Six North Scandinavian Languages: Patterns of Variation and Change." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 33, no. 3 (2021): 264–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542720000173.

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This study addresses gender assignment in six North Scandinavian varieties with a three-gender system: Old Norse, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Old Swedish, Nysvenska, Jamtlandic, and Elfdalian. Focusing on gender variation and change, we investigate the role of various factors in gender change. Using the contemporary Swedish varieties Jamtlandic and Elfdalian as a basis, we compare gender assignment in other North Scandinavian languages, tracing the evolution back to Old Norse. The data consist of 1,300 concepts from all six languages coded for cognacy, gender, and morphological and semantic variation

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van Zanten, Arwen. "GOING BERSERK: IN OLD NORSE, OLD IRISH AND ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE." Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 63, no. 1 (2007): 43–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401204835_007.

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Markelova, Olga. "The perception of Old Norse literature in modern Icelandic children’s literature." St.Tikhons' University Review. Series III. Philology, no. 55 (June 30, 2018): 52–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturiii201855.52-74.

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