#medieval scandinavia
The Beginning Of Scandinavian Christianization Mission And Its Interpretation In Adam De Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Lukas Gabriel Grzybowski Revista Signum, 2016, vol. 17, n. 1 This paper intent to launch a new view on the problem of the Christianization of Scandinavia in the Early Middle Ages. It is not a new topic under the historians of this period, but it continues to promote vivid debate…
SKALDIC TECHNIQUE IN BRUNANBURH
SKALDIC TECHNIQUE IN BRUNANBURH John D. Niles Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 59, No. 3, Anglo-Scandínavían England (SUMMER 1987),pp. 356-366. According to established wisdom, the Scandinavian settlements in England left little imprint on the language of Anglo-Saxon literature even though English and Norse were long spoken side by side. As H. R. Loyn puts it, “Traditional literary Anglo-Saxon,…
The Lost Literature of Medieval Iceland
The Lost Literature of Medieval Iceland: Sagas of Icelanders Judith Jesch PhD Thesis, University College London (1984). Click here to read this thesis at Academia.edu
Scyld Scyldinga: Intercultural innovation at the interface of West and North Germanic
Scyld Scyldinga: Intercultural innovation at the interface of West and North Germanic Carl Edlund Anderson While many agree that Scyld in Beowulf was back-formed from Scyldingas, the context in which thisoccurred is rarely discussed. It seems frequentlyassumed that Scyld was created in Denmark andexported to England along with the name Scyldingas. However, the way that names and terms…
The Varangian legend: testimony from the Old Norse sources
The Varangian legend: testimony from the Old Norse sources Sverrir Jakobsson In the eleventh century there existed, within the great army of the Byzantine empire, a regiment composed mainly o soldiers from Scandinavia and the Nordiccountries. This regiment was known as the Varangian Guard (tagma tōn Varangōn).The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact the existence of this regiment had…
Brazilian journal SIGNUM, issue 16.3: “Readings on Medieval Scandinavia” [Port. & Eng.]…
Leituras da Escandinávia Medieval [Readings on Medieval Scandinavia] Lukas Gabriel Grzybowski (org.) Signum v. 16, n. 3 (2015) Special issue of the journal of ABREM – Associação Brasileira de Estudos Medievais / Brazilian Association of Medieval Studies. Click the title of the article or click the image to read this issue of Signum. Articles: A ESCANDINÁVIA NA IDADE MÉDIA EM SUAS MÚLTIPLAS…
Annotated Translation of the Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic and Norwegian Rune Poem and the Abecedarium Nordmannicum [in Portuguese] Elton O. S. Medeiros Medievalis 2015, 4 (1) The study of runes always attracted the attention of the academy and a great interest by the general public. Nowadays we can see them represented in different ways of media and serving for many different purposes. In this article…
An Eye for Odin? Divine Role-Playing inthe Age of Sutton Hoo
An Eye for Odin? Divine Role-Playing inthe Age of Sutton Hoo Neil Price & Paul Mortimer This paper presents some new observations concerning the construction of the Sutton Hoo helmet, as a point of entry to a wider discussion of pre-Christian religious and ideological links across Scandinavia. It will be argued that in certain circumstances and locations, such as the firelit interior of the…
The Vikings on the Continent in Myth and History
The Vikings on the Continent in Myth and History Simon Coupland History, Volume 88, Issue 290 (2003) The Vikings have a bad reputation, and it was no different on the Continent in the middle ages where they were regularly portrayed as brutally cruel, devilishly cunning and of superhuman stature. This article examines the evidence for the Vikings’ supposed cruelty, cunning and remarkable height…
Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils saga
Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils sagaSantiago Barreiro
Network & Neighbours, vol. 3, n. 1 (2015)
This study analyses the way in which the thirteenth-century Egils saga Skallagrímssonar presented the migration to Iceland of Egill’s father Grímr and grandfather Úlfr, and the creation of a settlement in the area of Borgarfjǫrðr in Western Iceland during the tenth…
The Vikings And Their Victims: The Verdict Of The Names
The Vikings And Their Victims: The Verdict Of The NamesGillian Fellows
Viking Society for Northern Research, 1995
Introduction: In the Dorothea Coke memorial lecture delivered in 1986, Professor R. I. Page, that silver-haired master of silvertongued vituperation, had to admit that he had been at a loss as to how to translate without resort to obscenity one of the many more or less obscene…
[In Portuguese] BRENNU-NJÁLS SAGA… a translation.
BRENNU-NJÁLS SAGA: PROJETO TRADUTÓRIO E TRADUÇÃO PARA O PORTUGUÊS Théo de Borba MoosburgerPhD Thesis, UFSC, Brazil, 2014.The thesis contains the complete translation into Portuguese of Brennu-Njáls saga (Njal’s saga), an anonymous Icelandic work from the second half of the 13th century and considered to be the most important of the sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) and one of the landmarks…
Hesiod and Hávamál: Transitions and the Transmission of Wisdom
Hesiod and Hávamál: Transitions and the Transmission of WisdomLilah Grace Canevaro
Oral Tradition Volume 29, Number 1
This article offers fresh insights into Hesiod’s Works and Days by comparing it with the Eddic Hávamál, a didactic poem far removed in terms of geography and date, but compellingly close in subject matter, construction, and transmission. It finds parallels between the poems in…
