Sökning: "Old Norse literature"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden Old Norse literature.

1. 1. Le chevalier courtois à la rencontre de la Suède médiévale : Du Chevalier au lion à Herr Ivan

   Författare :Sofia Lodén; Anders Bengtsson; Michèle Gally; Per Förnegård; Keith Busby; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Chrétien de Troyes; Le Chevalier au lion; Herr Ivan; Eufemiavisorna; Ívens saga; medieval literature; medieval translation; Old French; Old Swedish; Old Norse; courtly literature; courtliness; French; franska;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the links between Chrétien de Troyes’ romance Le Chevalier au lion from the late twelfth century and the Old Swedish text Herr Ivan, written at the behest of Queen Eufemia of Norway at the beginning of the fourteenth century. The study has two parts. LÄS MER

3. 2. 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

4. 3. "Mitt hems gränser vidgades" : En studie i den kulturella skandinavismen under 1800-talet

   Författare :Kari Haarder Ekman; Anders Olsson; Johan Stenström; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavism; the modern breakthrough; C. J. L. Almqvist; H. C. Andersen; Fredrika Bremer; Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson; Georg Brandes; C. V. A. Strandberg; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; History of Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the cultural side of the very large movement that was Scandinavism. In Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Scandinavism fostered a great interest in the language and literature of the neighbouring countries. This interest emerged at the start of the nineteenth century, marking an about-turn after centuries of war. LÄS MER

5. 4. A unified account of the Old English metrical line

   Författare :Andrew Cooper; Nils-Lennart Johannesson; Nigel Fabb; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; metrical phonology; Old English; Anglo-Saxon; syntax-phonology interface; accentual-syllabic; hypermetric; beowulf; optimality metrics; quantitative verse; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study describes the verse design of Old English poetry in terms of modern phonological theory, developing an analysis which allows all OE verse lines to be described in terms of single metrical design.Old English poetry is typified by a single type of line of variable length, characterised by four metrical peaks. LÄS MER

7. 5. 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