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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade ordet norse.

1. 1. "Hallen var lyst i helig frid" : Krig och fred mellan gudar och jättar i en fornnordisk hallmiljö

   Författare :Tommy Kuusela; Olof Sundqvist; Terry Adrian Gunnell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Giants; Old Norse; Religion; Halls; Old Norse Religion; Mythology; Óðinn; Þórr; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is the first study to examine the interaction between gods and giants in Old Norse mythology from the perspective of Iron Age halls. Its central aim is to contextualise Old Norse mythological narratives that describe the interactions between gods and giants in a hall environment, and to show how the mythological depictions can be compared to the norms and rules found in Iron Age hall culture, especially in connection with its warrior ideology. 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

4. 3. De guldglänsande ryttarna : C-brakteaternas ikonografi i ny belysning

   Författare :Johan Adetorp; Marianne Görman; Anders Hultgård; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gold bracteate; Migration Period; Iconography; Iconology; Celtic religion; Germanic religion; Old Norse religion; Religionsvetenskap; Study of Religions; Germanic religion; Old Norse; Celtic religion; iconology; Iconography; Gold bracteate; Migration period;

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5. 4. Fri översättning i det medeltida Västnorden

   Författare :Jonatan Pettersson; Rune Palm; Anna-Malin Karlsson; Stefanie Gropper; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Translation studies; medieval translation; free translation; translator’s role; translation history; Alexanders saga; Old Norse; Alexandreis; Latin; systemic functional linguistics; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages; nordiska språk;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis, medieval free translation is explored as a text-producing practice as it appears in Alexanders saga, a 13th century Old Norse translation of the medieval Latin epic Alexandreis. The practice is investigated through analyses of (1) the rendering of the source text and (2) the translator’s role in making the target text. LÄS MER

7. 5. Sociolinguistic, comparative and historical perspectives on Scandinavian gender: With focus on Jamtlandic

   Författare :Briana Van Epps; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; grammatical gender; Jamtlandic; Swedish dialects; dialectology; dialect loss; language variation and change; gender assignment; Scandinavian; gender variability; diachrony; Old Norse; Old Swedish; Swedish; Norwegian; Elfdalian;

   Sammanfattning : The present thesis investigates gender assignment in Jamtlandic from a sociolinguistic and historical/comparative perspective. Jamtlandic is a language variety spoken in northwestern Sweden in the province of Jämtland. It maintains a three-gender system, in contrast to Standard Swedish, which has a two-gender system. LÄS MER