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Birkett, Thomas Eric. "Ráð Rétt Rúnar : reading the runes in Old English and Old Norse poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e7ea1359-fedc-43a5-848b-7842a943ce96.

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Responding to the common plea in medieval inscriptions to ráð rétt rúnar, to ‘interpret the runes correctly’, this thesis provides a series of contextual readings of the runic topos in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse poetry. The first chapter looks at the use of runes in the Old English riddles, examining the connections between material riddles and certain strategies used in the Exeter Book, and suggesting that runes were associated with a self-referential and engaged form of reading. Chapter 2 seeks a rationale for the use of runic abbreviations in Old English manuscripts, and proposes a poetic as

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Sandberg, Peter Benedict. "Repetition in Old Norse Eddic poetry : poetic style, voice, and desire." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10051080/.

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This thesis examines the use of repetition as a poetic device in Old Norse Eddic verse from a primarily stylistic point of view. Previous studies have noted the prominence of repetition as a feature of Eddic poetry, but without engaging in an in-depth analysis of the use and significance of Eddic repetition as this thesis does. The analysis begins at the level of syntax in the Eddic strophe, establishing in the first place the syntactic formulae that constitute the most basic building blocks of repetition in Eddic poetry, focusing closely on individual lines and strophes from a broad range of

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Romano, Christian. "Skald risti. En studie av förhållandet mellan fornöstnordiskt och fornvästnordiskt diktarspråk." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för nordiska språk, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-160705.

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Schorn, Brittany Erin. "'How can his word be trusted?' : speaker and authority in Old Norse wisdom poetry." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/241661.

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In the eddic poem Hávamál, the god Óðinn gives advice, including a warning about the fickleness of human, and divine, nature. He cites his own flagrant deception of giants who trusted him in order to win the mead of poetry as evidence for this deep-seated capacity for deceit, asking of himself: ‘how can his word be trusted?’ This is an intriguing question to ask in a poem purporting to relate the wisdom of Óðinn, and it is a concern repeatedly voiced in regard to him and other speakers in the elaborate narrative frames of the Old Norse wisdom poems. The exchange of wisdom in poetic texts s

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Crockatt, Ian. "Poetry, accuracy and truth : translating the Old Norse skaldic verse of Ro̜gnvaldr Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney, 1135-1158." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=220454.

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This thesis analyses my attempt to make engaging English language literary translations of complex Old Norse skaldic poetry, translations which convey significant elements of the form, sound patterns and referential reach of the originals. The primary focus is on the lausavísur (loose, or single verses) of Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney from 1135 until 1158. It argues that translations of poetry should find equivalents not just for the semantic sense of the originals, but for the accumulated significance of all the factors that make it poetry. In developing this argument I suggest

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Updegraff, Derek Kramer Johanna Ingrid. ""Fore ðære mærðe mod astige" two new perspectives on the Old English Gifts of men /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5623.

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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 6, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Johanna Kramer. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Schlereth, L. T. "British theories of mythology and Old Norse poetry : a study of methodologies in the mid-19th to early 20th centuries." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1346490/.

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This study is an examination of the major theories concerning mythology that were popular in the United Kingdom from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century and the ways in which they can be applied to Old Norse myth. The goal is to develop a greater understanding of how specific theories can or cannot be applied to certain mythological poems that are contained with the Poetic Edda collection. The examination begins with the etymological approach of Max Müller and his applicability to Alvíssmál, Skírnismál and Lokasenna. It will be shown that Müller’s ideas are difficult to a

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North, John Richard James. "Words in context : an investigation into the meanings of Early English words by comparison of vocabulary and narrative themes in Old English and Old Norse poetry." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.254524.

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Mattioli, Vittorio. "Grímnismál : a critical edition." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12219.

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The purpose of this thesis is an in-depth analysis of the Eddic poem Grímnismál found in the manuscript known as Codex Regius (GKS 2365 4to), located in Reykjavík, dated to c. 1270 and a fragment (AM 748 I 4to), located in Copenhagen, dated to c. 1300. While a great deal of work has been done on Grímnismál as part of the Elder Edda, there is yet no specific edition focusing on it alone. New studies on Germanic paganism and mythology show its shifting nature and the absence of specific tenets or uniform beliefs throughout the Germanic speaking world and in time. The relatively absent sources ar

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Ferreira, Annemari. "The politics of performance in Viking Age skaldic poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1aa55225-8e44-4fea-a9ff-55f72209e590.

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This thesis examines the political functions of the performance of skaldic poetry during the Viking Age. It aims to establish the vital role that skaldic verse plays in the establishment and maintenance of power, as well as the importance of skaldic performance in the negotiation of that power in the inter-community relations between various courts both within and outside of Viking Age Scandinavia. The first chapter provides a contextual understanding of Viking Age power structures by considering the central ideological constructs surrounding the concept of óðal (ancestral property). Óðal-de

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Bäckvall, Maja. "Skriva fel och läsa rätt? : Eddiska dikter i Uppsalaeddan ur ett avsändar- och mottagarperspektiv." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för nordiska språk, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-197715.

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This dissertation focuses on the eddic poetry in the Codex Upsaliensis DG 11 4to, the Uppsala Edda. The manuscript has long been considered too far removed from the assumed original of the text to be of much use to editors, with the result that it was largely neglected by philologists during the last century. The eddic poetry in DG 11 differs in many instances from the other main manuscripts, and this study aims to examine these variants from the point of view of the 14th century scribe and reader of the manuscript. The dissertation’s framework comes close to what is known as New or Material P

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Santrac, Dragoslava. "Sanctuary cult in relation to religious piety in the Book of Psalms / by Dragoslava Santrac." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9827.

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The specific thesis that is tested in this study is that there is continual interaction between the sanctuary cult and personal religious experience in the Book of Psalms. The main theoretical argument is that the sanctuary cult had a formative role in creating the piety of the psalmists. The study attempts to explore the specific nature of that relationship and to benefit from the contributions of three major approaches to the Psalms, i.e., the form critical approach (Hermann Gunkel), the cultic approach (Sigmund Mowinckel) and the Psalter-shaping approach (Gerald H. Wilson, James L. Mays, Je

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Hopkins, Stephen Chase Evans. "Solving the Old English Exodus: An Active Problem Solving Approach to the Poem." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303488106.

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Zvonareva, Alina. "Giacomino da Verona e altri testi veronesi nel MS. Colombino 7-1-52: edizione e commento linguistico." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3422544.

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The present dissertation examines the Seville Colombina Manuscript 7-1-52 (henceforth S) according to a philological-linguistic approach. The codex was copied in Northern Italy in the late-14th / early-15th century; it transmits eleven religious texts in Venetian and in Tuscan. These works include sermons in verse (De Jerusalem celesti, De Babilonia infernali, Dell’amore di Gesù, Del Giudizio Universale, Della caducità della vita umana; the author of the former two is Giacomino da Verona, while the other texts are anonymous), doxological prayers (Lodi della Vergine, Preghiera alla Vergine e al

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Michalíková, Jana. "Náboženství a humor: Komické vrstvy ve staroseverských náboženských textech a jejich vztah k oficiálnímu náboženství." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-332239.

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This paper focuses on the comic layers in Eddic mythological poetry, namely in Lokasenna, Hárbarðsljóð and Ϸrymskviða, and on their relation to the Old Norse religion. In the past, these comic and seemingly blasphemic poems used to be interpreted as a display of criticism of the religious system or, due to the impossibility to date their origin, as a product of late decadent paganism or even as a Christian satire of this religion. This paper shows that such interpretations are not necessary, and that the comic Eddic poems could have existed as a functional part of the Old Norse religion. It po

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Grove, Jonathan. "The contest of verse-making in Old Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry." 2007. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=510528&T=F.

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Simms, Douglas Peter Allen. "Reconstructing an oral tradition problems in the comparative metrical analysis of Old English, Old Saxon and Old Norse alliterative verse /." Thesis, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3116396.

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Sroka, Nitalu. "The syllable-evidence from Icelandic skaldic poetry." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/9935.

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Glanz, Elaine Marie. "The odors of sanctity and of evil in Old English prose and poetry /." Diss., 1996. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9705009.

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Kozák, Jan. "Oběť a iniciace v mýtech o Ódinovi." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-350049.

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This dissertation deals with the interpretation of four myths from early medieval Scandinavia, in which the main role is played by the god Óðinn. All four myths narrate how he achieved a state of permanent increase of his numinous knowledge. Based on the fact that the outcome of all of the narratives is the acquisition of the Mead of Poetry (or its equivalent), they can be percieved as "four reports on the same event". The analysis of myths itself has been executed in two steps: firstly the separate inquiry of the two more central myths and introduction of the other two followed by thorough an

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