Browsing Vikingtid og nordisk middelalder by Issue Date
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis will examine marriage in the sagas of chivalries, in order to characterise the sagas' example for Hákon Hákonarson's court as "civilising" or "un-civilising". My definition of "civilised" will be determined by ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis examines whether, when and how the Norse in the Hebrides choose to adapt to local circumstances and, in particular, their choice to accept Christianity. The Norse settled in the Hebrides from circa AD 800; the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)The following thesis is an interdisciplinary analysis which follows the process of death and dying in Norway during the High Middle Ages post quem c. 1150 and terminus ante quem c. 1350; or roughly between the establishment ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)Denne oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i en teori om at kongemakten hadde et ønske om, og interesse av, å propagandere den kongsideologi som uttrykkes i verker som Konungs skuggsiá og Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar til et større ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)Oppgaven er en undersøkelse av kontekst, funksjon, struktur og herunder også mening i Volsetåtten (Vt) i Flateyjarbók (Flat.) datert til 1387-1394. Større og mindre deler av Vt har blitt undersøkt gjentatte ganger, men ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)"Hvem produserer fortiden?" er en studie som tar for seg temaet bevaring av fornminner som en del av fortidsproduksjon i forsknings-og forvaltningsinstitusjoner. Hypotesen i studien er at det finnes ulike motivasjoner for ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)The Greenland Norse: The Hunt for Wood in Labrador A Cross Cultural Perspective For decades common themes surrounding the Greenland Norse have focused on subsistence and extinction in Greenland. This paper ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)The leadership of the Norwegian Kings during the Medieval ‘Civil War’ plays a prominent part in social, political and economical life in high Medieval Norway. The objective of the present dissertation discusses how King ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)Denne oppgaven foretar en idéhistorisk analyse av Kongespeilets rettslære i forhold til en norsk og europeisk bakgrunn. Undersøkelsen retter fokus mot tre aspekter: rettergang, skyldvurdering og straff. På disse områdene ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)Sammendrag I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg muligheten for om det kan ha eksistert flere kirker i Østfold i middelalderen enn de vi kjenner fra skriftlige eller arkeologiske kilder. Bakgrunnen for dette er at det (i Østfold) ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)The Norse werewolf is a joint term under which the author has chosen to subsume the diversity of motives based on or containing elements of lupine therianthropy within the Old Norse literary corpus. The purpose of the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)I denne avhandlingen vil jeg gjennomgå våpenkravene som stilles den norske kongemaktens håndgangne menn i Hirdskråen kapittel 30 fra 1270-tallet. Disse våpenkravene har påfallende likhetstrekk med samtidig våpenutrustning ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)The thesis examines the concept of the supernatural beings called álfar, elves . It aims to achieve a thorough understanding of their image as it appears in the Scandinavian written sources from up till the 15th century. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Many aspects of human life are revolved, in some manner or another, around sex from an individual level up to the level of a society. This thesis will examine notions of sexual taboos that occur in the Völsunga saga and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)This thesis gathers and examines the rich literary evidence for the runic script. The contents of such runic sequences are analysed through the prism of the preserved runic epigraphic material from about the same period ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The purpose of this inquiry is to investigate whether an exploration of Níðhöggr and Miðgarðsormr through the theme of order and chaos is a viable mechanism for revealing facets of Old Norse mythic consciousness and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Utgangspunktet for denne oppgaven er bildene i håndskriftet A43, også kjent som Ingegerd Ambjörnsdotters bønnebok (IAb). IAb befinner seg i dag i håndskriftsavdelingen ved Det Kungeliga Biblioteket i Stockholm. Manuskriptet ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The present Master's thesis concerns the role of bishops in Icelandic society. The first part examines bishops' backgrounds and its influence on their position and politics. The second part deals with bishops' role in ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The focus of the present paper is on the Viking beliefs connected with death, life after death and burial customs in relation to women. It is neither a philological analysis of the written sources that we have at our ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)This thesis focuses on the concept of courtoisie and how it was translated from Old French into Old Norse. I have looked at one romance and saga of chivalry in particular, namely Le Conte de Floire et Blancheflor and Flóres ...