Building the nation: N. F. S. Grundtvig and Danish national identity Denmark became a nation amidst the turbulence of the nineteenth century, an era plagued by war, bankruptcy, and territorial loss. Building the Nation is an insightful study of this … Weiterlesen
Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic worlds The reception of the Charlemagne legends among Nordic and Celtic communities in the Middle Ages is a shared story of transmission, translation, an exploration of national identity, and the celebration of imperialism. The … Weiterlesen
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In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies: Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture Reinhard Hennig / Emily Lethbridge / Michael Schulte (Hrsg.)https://doi.org/10.1484/M.NAW-EB.5.132526 Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies is … Weiterlesen
Constructional approaches to Nordic languages This volume presents eight studies of linguistic phenomena in Nordic languages (notably Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) from a construction grammar perspective. The contributions both deepen and widen the focus of construction grammar applied to Nordic … Weiterlesen
Variation in nominal possessive expressions. Case studies from Danish and Swedish This book is an account of the variation between two possessive constructions in Danish and Swedish: the s‑genitive (husets tak ‘the house’s roof’), and the prepositional construction (taket på … Weiterlesen
„Der Baetke: Das ist das „Wörterbuch zur altnordischen Prosaliteratur“ von Walter Baetke, das 1965–1968 in einer ersten Auflage in Berlin erschienen ist. Die digitale Ausgabe umfasst zudem die Vorwörter der zweiten Auflage Darmstadt 1976 samt Korrekturen sowie einen alphabetischen Stichwortindex … Weiterlesen
Cultural legacies of Old Norse literature: new perspectives An exciting new collection of essays exploring the startling variety of transformations of Old Norse texts, and their legacy in later literary cultures. The „Viking Age“ of medieval Scandinavia, with its heathen … Weiterlesen
Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda: A multifactorial analysis of linguistic features This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda, perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This … Weiterlesen
Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space: A Creative Approach to Old Norse Poetry and Poetics This book explores the nature of poetic reading using a creative approach to understanding Old Norse poetry. It considers lacunae in the history, criticism and scholarly … Weiterlesen
Unwanted: Neglected Approaches, Characters, and Texts in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Studies The 9 essays collected in this volume are the result of a workshop for international doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Studies held at the Institute for … Weiterlesen
Discourse in Old Norse literature An examination of what dialogues and direct speech in Old Norse literature can convey and mean, beyond their immediate face-value. The vast and diverse corpus of Old Norse literature preserves the language spoken not only … Weiterlesen
Narrative in the Icelandic family saga: meanings of time in Old Norse literature Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank among some of the world’s greatest literature. Here, … Weiterlesen
Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary HistoryHow did Nordic culture become associated with the fuzzy brand “cool”, as by default? In Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History twenty-one scholars in collaboration question the seemingly natural fit between “Nordic” and “Cool” by … Weiterlesen
Diebstahl und Raub in den Isländersagas: Einfallstore in die norröne Erzähl- und VorstellungsweltDiebstahl und Raub sind ebenso wie Gaben reziproke Handlungen mit vielfältigen literarischen Einsatzmöglichkeiten. Obwohl widerrechtliche Aneignungen schon auf den ersten Blick zu den zentralen Themen einer ›Wikingerliteratur‹ zählen, … Weiterlesen