Sökning: "eddic poetry"

Hittade 2 avhandlingar innehållade orden eddic poetry.

  1. 1. Skriva fel och läsa rätt? : Eddiska dikter i Uppsalaeddan ur ett avsändar- och mottagarperspektiv

    Författare :Maja Bäckvall; Henrik Williams; Heimir Pálsson; Paula Henrikson; Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Codex Upsaliensis DG 11 4to; Uppsala Edda; Snorri Sturluson; eddic poetry; descriptive reception philology; scribal error; Old Norse; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on the eddic poetry in the Codex Upsaliensis DG 11 4to, the Uppsala Edda. The manuscript has long been considered too far removed from the assumed original of the text to be of much use to editors, with the result that it was largely neglected by philologists during the last century. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Viking Way : Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

    Författare :Neil Price; Martin Carver; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Viking Age; Vikings; Óðinn; seiðr; sorcery; shamanism; warfare; Norse religion; Norse mythology; Sámi; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : The social role of magic is a prevalent theme of the medieval Icelandic sagas that claim to describe life several centuries earlier in the Viking Age, and indeed also saturates the Eddic poetry that is our primary source for the mythology and cosmology of the time. However, little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this aspect of ritual may really have meant to the men and women of late Iron Age Scandinavia. LÄS MER