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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Snorra Edda"”.
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Boundaries of the Human: Identities, Ontologies and Transformations in Old Norse Literature
… of male bodies in mythic narrative (*Snorra Edda*, *Poetic Edda*), alongside the fragmentation of bodies in the image-worlds of skaldic kennings and eddic riddles (*Heiðreks gátur*). I then extend this discussion by examining impaired and vulnerable bodies in *fornaldarsögur* that are …
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„Hold loðir yðr í klóm“. Hrafnar og heiðin minni
… dróttkvæðið Haraldskvæði | Hrafnsmál, Snorra-Edda í útgáfu Finns Jónssonar og Íslendingabók: Landnámabók í útgáfu Jakobs Benediktssonar. Í inngangi er minnst lauslega á hrafna Óðins, Hugin og Munin, og hlutverk þeirra sem fjölmiðla miðalda. Síðan er meginviðfangsefni ritgerðarinnar, …
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Representations of the pagan afterlife in medieval Scandinavian literature
… 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 be a …
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Kinship and Narrative in Old Norse Literature: Parent-Child Relations in Mythic-Heroic Texts
… 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 kinship. …
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Craftsmen and Wordsmiths: An Investigation into the Links Between Material Crafting, Poetic Composition and Their Practitioners in Old Norse Literature
… what skaldic and eddic poetry as well as Snorra Edda reveal about the mythological configuration of poetic composition, crafting and their practitioners. It explores the shared association of poetry and crafted goods with the distant past and with geographically remote spaces in the Old …