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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Poetic Edda"”.
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in oral performance cultures may have had …
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The Young Sigurðr Section of the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda (GKS 2365 4to): Compositional History and Interpretative Reading
The Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda (GKS 2365 4to) is one of the most important medieval Icelandic manuscripts. It contains many eddic poems, most of them only preserved in it, interspersed with prose passages providing the narrative background and context. The section of the manuscript about the …
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Boundaries of the Human: Identities, Ontologies and Transformations in Old Norse Literature
… mythological narrative and traditional poetics (eddic and skaldic) to legal compilations and religious works. Using three theoretical frameworks (critical posthumanism, new materialism and disability studies), I analyse how different literary modes grapple with concepts of human …
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Representations of the pagan afterlife in medieval Scandinavian literature
… refer to Hel the goddess, while the poems of the Poetic Edda, although ambivalent in a few instances, regard Hel as a place within the mythological cosmos. Both poetic genres use references to Hel primarily as circumlocutions for death or the act of dying. Snorri’s description of Hel is shown to …
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Kinship and Narrative in Old Norse Literature: Parent-Child Relations in Mythic-Heroic Texts
… depiction of parent-child relations in the Poetic Edda, Snorra Edda and the fornaldarsaga corpus, with the aim of illuminating 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 …
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Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas
… arose between Christianity and paganism. The Poetic Edda is one of the most important sources of information on Scandinavian paganism, as well as archeological discoveries.</p> <p> The conversion and Christianization of Iceland was a process covering over 200 years, affecting all aspects of …