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The Norse Hero Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Snorra Edda belongs to the most famous works of medieval Icelandic literature. The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze five medieval manuscripts produced during the fourteenth century transmitting the whole Snorra ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Eschewing for lack of evidence notions of an Old Norse “mind” which transgresses the body through breath or is operatively breath, this study adopts and applies conceptual metaphor theory and other cognitive perspectives ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This study sets out to examine Dublin between 980 and 1054; more particularly it assesses the role of socio-political networks in maintaining power in Ireland. Associations between the Irish kingdoms and the Hiberno-Scandinavian ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis explores the modern reception of Old Norse literary culture in video games, a sphere of global popular culture which is heretofore unexplored in the field of Old Norse studies. This topic is relevant in light ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The Micillo-Males hypothesis proposes that the second part of The Third Grammatical Treatise (ca 1250) by Óláfr Þórðarson is based on a commentary of the insular tradition on Donatus’ third book of the Ars maior. This paper ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The saga corpus contains numerous accounts of supernatural humans, be they monstrous beings like berserkir and draugr, or wielding inhuman powers and communing directly with the supernatural as an innate part of their ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Realities and Representations: Alcohol in the Aggrandizer in the Early Medieval West Norse World Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The present thesis aims to investigate the scribes who contributed to the manuscript Stockholm Islandica perg. nr. 5 folio, establishing differences and connections between the texts and the hands in the manuscript. This ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis is aiming to be a qualitative, descriptive study conducted through close reading of two texts of the Irish tradition: The Death of Muirchertach Mac Erca and The Second Battle of Mag Tuired. The purpose of this ...