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Across the Sólundarhaf: Connections between Scotland and the Nordic World
Earl Rögnvaldr of Orkney: a poet of the Viking Diaspora2013 •
As is widely known, Skáldatal is a list of court poets and of their aristocratic patrons, from the 9th to the 13th century, i.e. from Starkaðr inn gamli to the Sturlung family. It is recorded twice, in a shorter and in a longer version, respectively, in Kringla (the lost vellum codex of the Norwegian kings’ history) and in Uppsala-Edda. Its textual variability is highly meaningful and reveals different contextual attitudes.
2012 •
Did the tradition of Eddic Poetry survive in oral transmission past the Middle Ages? A group of alliterative poems recorded from oral tradition in late 17th century Iceland share textual similarities or poetic formulas with each other and with older poetry in similar meters, including poems in the Poetic Edda. The present article contains a survey of the poetic formulas in one such poem, Vambarljóð. The article explores the reason why Vambarljóð shares formulas with older poetry and argues in favor of a continuous oral tradition rather than learned borrowings.
New Norse Studies: Essays on the Literature and Culture of Medieval Scandinavia
“Loki, Sneglu-Halla þáttr, and the Case for a Skaldic Prosaics.” In New Norse Studies: Essays on the Literature and Culture of Medieval Scandinavia, edited by Jeffrey Turco, 185-241. Islandica 58. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.2015 •
This article proposes that the oft-dismissed Sneglu-Halla þáttr (Tale of Sarcastic Halli) is not simply a series of virtuoso vituperations peppered with sexual-cum-barnyard humor, nor “a series of episodes that could have been arranged otherwise as well,” but a text that repays close attention, both for original audiences as well as for scholars of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. I argue that its eponymous hero establishes his social position at the royal Norwegian court by ensconcing himself within a sustained series of allusions to myths of the Norse god Loki, while framing his peers, and even his superiors, as the sexual deviants, low-lifes, and numbskulls of a déclassé “folktale” world. Sneglu-Halla þáttr thus presupposes considerable literary connoisseurship, detailed knowledge of the Norse mythographic tradition, and a consciousness of high and low genre that reflects concerns of shifting social classes and political powers in thirteenth and fourteenth-century Iceland. Ultimately, I leverage this reading to articulate a reappraisal of medieval Icelandic narrative prose—most often lauded for its “realism," "straightforwardness," and "objectivity”: I offer that this deceptively “simple” tale adheres to the same aesthetic principles of complexity, ambiguity, and allusiveness that characterize the Skaldic poetry that is its ostensible subject.
Jeffrey Turco, Joseph C Harris, Torfi Tulinius, Paul Acker, Russell Poole, Richard L Harris, Thomas D Hill
New Norse Studies, edited by Jeffrey Turco, gathers twelve original essays engaging aspects of Old Norse–Icelandic literature that continue to kindle the scholarly imagination in the twenty-first century. The assembled authors examine the arrière-scène of saga literature; the nexus of skaldic poetry and saga narrative; medieval and post-medieval gender roles; and other manifestations of language, time, and place as preserved in Old Norse–Icelandic texts. This volume will be welcomed not only by the specialist and by scholars in adjacent fields but also by the avid general reader, drawn in ever-increasing number to the Icelandic sagas and their world. Table of Contents Preface; Jeffrey Turco, volume editor: Introduction; Andy Orchard: Hereward and Grettir: Brothers from Another Mother?; Richard L. Harris: “Jafnan segir inn ríkri ráð”: Proverbial Allusion and the Implied Proverb in Fóstbrœðra saga; Torfi H. Tulinius: Seeking Death in Njáls saga; Guðrún Nordal: Skaldic Poetics and the Making of the Sagas of Icelanders; Russell Poole: Identity Poetics among the Icelandic Skalds; Jeffrey Turco: Loki, Sneglu-Halla þáttr, and the Case for a Skaldic Prosaics; Thomas D. Hill: Beer, Vomit, Blood and Poetry: Egils saga, Chapters 44-45; Shaun F. D. Hughes: The Old Norse Exempla as Arbiters of Gender Roles in Medieval Iceland; Paul Acker: Performing Gender in the Icelandic Ballads; Joseph Harris: The Rök Inscription, Line 20; Sarah Harlan-Haughey: A Landscape of Conflict: Three Stories of the Faroe Conversions; Kirsten Wolf: Non-Basic Color Terms in Old Norse-Icelandic
Scandinavian Studies
Adèle Kreager, 'Encounters at the Mound in Old Norse Literature: Dialogues between Landscape and Narrative', Scandinavian Studies 94.4 (2022), 399-4302022 •
My PhD research examines representations of the figure of the female settler, Auðr (or Unnr) djúp(a)uðga Ketilsdóttir, in the context of memory formation from the first literary texts in the vernacular to the nineteenth century. Today I will focus on the cultural memories of this Viking Age woman in eighteenth-century praise poetry.
2014 •
Materials Research Bulletin
Coupling in Quantum Dot Molecular Hetero-Assemblies2021 •
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
n -Alkanes in Fresh Snow in Hokkaido, Japan: Implications for Ice Core Studies2013 •
Reforma Urbana e Direito à Cidade - Grande Vitória
O papel da urbanização na variação dos fluxos de acumulação social da violência2022 •
Journal of Neuroscience Research
Ciliary neurotrophic factor and interleukin-6 differentially activate microglia2008 •
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Economic Change And Restructuring
Direct transfers between the former Soviet Union central budget and the republics: Past evidence and current implications1995 •
Iaie Pan Sygn P 244
Wczesnoneolityczna osada w Sandomierzu-Krukowie, stan. 201995 •
2007 •
Journal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery
A systematic review of the effectiveness of flipped classroom approaches in developing clinical skills among nursing studentsJournal of Cultural Heritage
The use of glass particles and its consequences in late 16th century oil painting: A Portuguese case based on the analytical results and the technical treatises2019 •
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
Model of Interoperability of Multiple Different Information Systems using SOA Middleware Layer and Ontological Database on the Cloud2018 •
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
Reliability of preoperative breast biopsies showing ductal carcinoma in situ and implications for non-operative treatment: a cohort study2019 •