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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Norse"”.
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Saga-Accounts of Norse Far-Travellers
… the distant north, south, east and west. These Norse far-travellers have various motivations for their journeys, and particular motivations and motifs are associated with each cardinal direction. Travel to the distant west and north, for example, is typified by commercial motivations: real …
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Pictish Mounds and Norse Assembly Sites: Norse Settlement and Landscapes in the Orkney Islands from the 9th to 11th century
This thesis explores the Norse settlement of the Orkney Islands between the 9th and 11th centuries, focusing on how the incoming Norse adapted and reshaped the existing Pictish landscape to suit their own cultural traditions and needs. Through the use of saga literature, archaeological material, …
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Runic writing in Orkney: expression of a Norse identity?
… this PhD project, the 54 Viking Age and Late Norse runic inscriptions from Orkney have been reviewed, with some addition and removals from the corpus, and put into a wider context, using interdisciplinary methods from runology, linguistics, philology, onomastics, and archaeology. The …
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Historical Ecology of Norse Greenland: Zooarchaeology and Climate Change Responses
… creation of cultural landscapes and seascapes in Norse Greenland. It also investigates climate impacts on human economic strategies, as they vary substantially by island and region in the North Atlantic but were especially important in arctic Greenland.</p> <p>The analysis centers on the animal …
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Seið the Magic Words: Two Case Studies in Old Norse Etymology
… origins of various magic terminology in the Old Norse language. Using seiðr and galdr as case studies, this thesis presents a methodology that may be repeated in the future for other magic-related words in the Old Norse literary corpus. By examining diachronically the history of these words’ …
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Boundaries of the Human: Identities, Ontologies and Transformations in Old Norse Literature
… the relational and contingent nature of Old Norse ontologies as expressed in literary texts, which posit identity as an evolving process rather than a fixed state. Chapter 1 investigates the productive dismemberment of male bodies in mythic narrative (*Snorra Edda*, *Poetic Edda*), alongside …
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Birds and Humans in the Old Norse World, c. 600-1500 AD
… of human-bird coexistence in Scandinavia and the Norse North Atlantic from 600-1500 AD, primarily focusing on the period c. 800-1400 within this time period. In particular, this thesis explores if and how literary representations of birds correlated in any way with zooarchaeological sources …
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'How can his word be trusted?': speaker and authority in Old Norse wisdom poetry
… in the elaborate narrative frames of the Old Norse wisdom poems. The exchange of wisdom in poetic texts such as this is no simple matter. Wisdom is conceived of as a body of knowledge, experience and observation that binds together all aspects of human life, the natural world and the …
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Þá varð hlátr mikill: On the role of laughter in Old Norse saga literature
… grinning, and smiling, represented by Old Norse *hlæja* (to laugh), *glotta* (to grin), *brosa* (to smile), and their cognates. Even though this analysis is informed by all of these instances, a selection has been made of the most intriguing and relevant examples to be looked at in close …
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Attitudes towards Paganism in Medieval Irish and Old Norse Texts of the Trojan War
… first half of the twelfth century) and the Old Norse Trójumanna saga (‘The Story of the Trojans’; first half of the thirteenth century), which are both based on Dares Phrygius’s Late Antique De excidio Troiae historia. The two vernacular adaptations are presented in the wider context of the …
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Kinship and Narrative in Old Norse Literature: Parent-Child Relations in Mythic-Heroic Texts
… both the role of kinship in shaping Old Norse narrative and the complementary role of narrative in aiding the conceptualisation and characterisation of Old Norse kinship. Informed by the work of anthropologists Marilyn Strathern and Marshall Sahlins, I argue that Old Norse kinship is …
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Developing the visitor appeal of Orkney’s Norse heritage sites: A route to more sustainable tourism?
… attractions landscape, in particular smaller Norse heritage sites, may serve as a potential alternative to overused sites/areas, and thus increase the sustainability of tourism to the destination.<br/>To that end, an in-depth, holistic case study analysis was carried out of six lesser-known, …
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The Scandinavian settlement of Northern Shetland: Northmavine, Yell, Unst, and Fetlar
The Norse colonisation of the North Atlantic from circa 800 AD onwards had a significant effect on Shetland. The archipelago became very Scandinavian and the culture of the local population almost disappeared. The research agenda of this multidisciplinary research was to investigate all the aspects …
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Craftsmen and Wordsmiths: An Investigation into the Links Between Material Crafting, Poetic Composition and Their Practitioners in Old Norse Literature
… their products resonate across the corpus of Old Norse literature—not only in skaldic metaphor, but also in historical, mythological and saga material. To judge by the frequency of their appearance in this literary corpus, these connections were clearly considered to be highly significant in …
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Dirt Work
… poetry that uses mythology, specifically Norse mythology, as a lens through which to filter personal concerns and relationships. There are eight sections, four of which are named after Norse gods, the other four being labeled "liminal space." Each named section deals with a specific person …
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Literary Activity and Ecclesiastical Authority in Medieval Iceland: The Old Norse Reception of St Ambrose of Milan and his Exemplary Role in Bishops’ Sagas
This thesis investigates the literary and socio-political impact of the Church’s struggle for *libertas ecclesiae* in the medieval Icelandic Church. I argue that hagiography –in the form of Saints’ sagas– constituted an instrument to promote Gregorian ideals of ecclesiastical independence against …
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