Sökning: "Old Norse"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden Old Norse.

  1. 6. 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

  3. 7. 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

  4. 8. 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

  5. 9. Krigarna i Odins sal : Dödsföreställningar och krigarkult fornnordisk religion

    Författare :Andreas Nordberg; Ulf Drobin; Anders Hultgård; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Othin; Valhall; war; warband; aristocracy; aristocratic hall; the afterlife; burial customs; Hel; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : The crucial question in this study concerns the relationship between the motifs of Valhall and Othin in the epically worked out myths, and the more vague and intuitive religious beliefs. Archaeological remains as well as Old Norse literature constitute the source material. LÄS MER

  7. 10. 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