Sólarljóð 'Song of the Sun'(Anon Sól) is preserved only in paper mss, the oldest of which
dates from the C17th; thus its age is uncertain, although it is generally presumed to be of …

Skald kalla mik 'they call me skald'asserted the ninth-century Norwegian Bragi Boddason,
when challenged by a troll-woman to identify himself ({Bragi Troll III}). Bragi is thought to …

This paper is the third in a three-part series that develops a model for the background of
rhyme in Old Norse dróttkvætt poetry as a formalization of the same form of rhyme found …

This article analyses the Old Norse term tafn. Several possible meanings for tafn have been
proposed, including 'carrion','corpse', and 'sacrifice'. This essay examines occurrences of …

Grobianus et Grobiana was an influential sixteenth-century German work by Friedrich
Dedekind which presented advice on how to behave badly, supposedly as an inverse way …

El objetivo de este trabajo es intentar reconstruir el campo semántico del vocabulario
referido al trabajo en las lenguas germánicas, através de la comparación de la evidencia …

The formal aspects of fornyrðislag, the Old Norse metre which corresponds most closely to
West Germanic alliterative poetry, are discussed in § 4.1 above. As shown in the sample …

The earliest extant manuscript to contain any fornaldarsögur is AM 544 4, known as
Hauksbók (Hb) because it was written for and in part by the Icelandic lawman Haukr …

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