10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCALDIC»
Discover the use of
scaldic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
scaldic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Bandle, Oscar; Braunmuller, Kurt; Jahr, Ernst Hakon; Karker, ...
As the earliest scaldic poem, Snorri Sturlu- son names Ragnarsdrdpa, a shield
poem by Bragi Boddason the Elder, which was probably composed towards the
end of the 9th c. Due to its rigid metre, scaldic poetry has been transmitted orally
...
Oskar Bandle, Lennart Elmevik, Gun Widmark, 2002
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Bandle, Oscar; Braunmüller, Kurt; Jahr, Ernst Hakon; Karker, ...
As the earliest scaldic poem, Snorri Sturluson names Ragnarsdrapa, a shield
poem by Bragi Boddason the Elder, which was probably composed towards the
end of the 9th c. Due to its rigid metre, scaldic poetry has been transmitted orally
for ...
Most scaldic poems survive through the Icelandic sagas, written down at the end
of the twelfth century and in the thirteenth century (pp. 12–13). Here long poems
are often split up into single stanzas and inserted in various places to support the
...
Else Roesdahl, Kirsten Williams, Susan Margeson, 1998
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Vox Intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages
To a large extent, it seems to me, this movement owes its existence and force
both to the keen interest of many Icelanders in their Norwegian past and to the
fact that Norwegians and Icelanders had developed the art of scaldic poetry, a
genre ...
Alger Nicolaus Doane, Carol Braun Pasternack, 1991
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Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide
Tr. Gearoid MacEoin. Erlu, 22 (1971): 1-22. Rpt. in Turville-Petre 1972. Pp. 154-
78, with "Postscript" (pp. 178-80). 1968. llaraldr the Hard-Ruler and His Poets.
Dorothea Coke Memorial Lecture. London: H K. Lewis. 1969a. "Scaldic Poetry ...
Carol J. Clover, John Lindow, 2005
His poems include Hattatal, a scaldic eulogy for King Hakon and Duke Skuli; his
sagas include the brilliantly vivid Egil 's Saga, while the H eimskringla is nothing
less than a survey of the whole of Norwegian history from its legendary origins ...
Kevin Crossley-Holland, 1980
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The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...
The sdngs of the Irish bards are conceived by some persons to be strongly
marked with the traces of Scaldic imagination, which are believed still to survive
among a species of poetical historians called U tale-tellers," supposed to be ...
8
History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of ...
D. i. The Scaldic and Arabian Lore contrasted. 137 the Northern-men, an army of
adventurers from Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. And although the conquerors,
especially when their success does not solely depend on superiority of ...
9
The Making of Christian Communities in Late Antiquity and ...
The Book of Settlements. Landnámabók, tr. with an introduction and notes by
Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards (Winnipeg, 192), p. 23. 10. A good basic
introduction to scaldic poetry is to be found in Frank, Roberta, Old Norse Court
Poetry.
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Norsemen in the Viking Age
When it comes to the human past, the only relevant texts are, as usual, the rune-
stones and the scaldic verse. Scaldic Verse Scaldic verse hints at contemporary
events, without much narrating, and with little reference to the remoter past, ...
