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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Skaldic poetry"”.
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Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar
… though a process of translation (or rewriting), skaldic poetry has been appropriated and manipulated in such a way as to help construct ideas of national identity. It combines two academic fields of study: one is the long-established and time-honoured tradition of skaldic scholarship and the …
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Craftsmen and Wordsmiths: An Investigation into the Links Between Material Crafting, Poetic Composition and Their Practitioners in Old Norse Literature
… óðarsmið mér’ (‘you will not find a better poetry-smith of three years than me’). Such metaphors are highly conventional in the skaldic poetry of the Viking Age and beyond. However, the link between the composition of verse and the construction of material objects was regarded as a topic of …
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Emotions in Njáls saga and Egils saga: Approaches and literary analysis
… sagas. Moreover, I analyse bodily depictions in skaldic poetry and investigate the use of the ‘hydraulic metaphor’ of emotions. The results demonstrate that, within these Old Norse works, emotions are physically conceived of as residing entirely in the breast, and not partially in the head, as is …
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Boundaries of the Human: Identities, Ontologies and Transformations in Old Norse Literature
… 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 identity, and find that the …
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The context, purpose, and dissemination of legendary genealogies in northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241
The thesis is a comparative and multidisciplinary study of legendary genealogies in the historical writing of northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241. Historical writing was produced in abundance over this period in both areas and the frequent contact between England and Scandinavia, as well …