A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue.:

Mode of access: Internet.

The Old Norse-Icelandic legend of Saint Barbara /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ring Out Your Dead : Distribution, form, and function of iron amulets in the late Iron Age grave fields of Lovö

The purpose of this study is to analyze the distribution, forms, and function(s) of iron amulets deposited in the late Iron Age gravefields of Lovö, with the goal of ascertaining how (and so far as possible why) these objects were utilized in rituals carried out during and after burials. Particular emphasis is given to re-interpreting the largest group of iron amulets, the iron amulet rings, in a more relational and practice-focused way than has heretofore been attempted. By framing burial analyses, questions of typology, and evidence of ritualized actions in comparison with what is known of other cult sites in Mälardalen specifically– and theorized about the cognitive landscape(s) of late Iron Age Scandinavia generally– a picture of iron amulets as inscribed objects made to act as catalytic, protective, and mediating agents is brought to light.

Old Icelandic : an introductory course /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Norse king's bridal;

Mode of access: Internet.

Norse mythology;

Mode of access: Internet.

A short practical and easy method of learning the old Norsk tongue or Icelandic language after the Danish of E. Rask ; with an Icelandic reader, an account of the Norsk poetry and the sagas, and a modern Icelandic vocabulary for travellers,

Mode of access: Internet.

Breaking old and new ground: a comparative study of coastal and inland naming in Berwickshire

This thesis investigates the place-names of four parishes in Berwickshire and compares coastal and inland naming patterns. Berwickshire is a large county that borders on northern England and historically formed part of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria. Partly due to the survival of extensive archives from the medieval priory of Coldingham, preserved in Durham Cathedral Archives, this county holds some of Scotland’s earliest recorded place- names. The parishes that form the research area are grouped together in the north-east of the county. Two of these parishes, Abbey St Bathans and Bunkle & Preston, are inland, and two, Cockburnspath and Coldingham, have extensive coastlines. The diversity of this group of parishes allows a comparative study of the place-names of coastal and inland areas to be undertaken. The topography of Berwickshire’s thirty-two parishes is very varied, and the four parishes have been chosen to reflect this range of landscapes. The place-names within the four parishes examined in this thesis derive almost exclusively from Old English, Older Scots, Modern Scots including Standard Scottish English, with a small minority derived from Old Norse, Gaelic, and Brittonic. The chronology of Old English, Older Scots, and Modern Scots is defined as given in the Concise Scots Dictionary: Old English is the period up to 1100, Older Scots is the period 1100-1700, and Modern Scots is the period 1700 onwards (CSD, 1985: xiii). Often with place-names it is not possible to give a precise dating for the coining of a toponym. For the purposes of this study, the language label given for a toponym is that of the date of the earliest record of the place-name with earlier linguistic evidence supplementing discussion. This thesis focuses on the names of topographic features, for example hills, rocks and woodland, and the role of perception in their naming. In order to compare the role of perception in inland and coastal naming, this thesis includes a diachronic study of the toponymy of the research area, along with two case studies. The first of these is a study of the toponymy of relief features, which focuses on generic elements in order to compare the perception of one type of referent in the two environments. The second is a study of the ‘colour’ category, which focuses on qualifying elements in order to compare the use of colour terms in the two environments. This thesis is the first comparative study of inland and coastal place-names, and it is one of the first to investigate new ways of using fieldwork as a central part of its methodology. In doing so it proposes innovative and nuanced ways to understand the toponymy of diverse landscapes within a community.

The fantastic in the family sagas : implications for saga authorship

There is increasing acceptance that characterisation in the family sagas is complex enough to include the subtle incorporation of protagonists’ inner lives. Thus, despite saga authors’ apparent desire to pass on traditional stories, saga characterization brings with it the possibility of a connection between the medieval author and the early Icelandic community represented in the sagas, a break in the saga code of objective narration that adds further weight to recent arguments that saga authorship was conceived in broader terms than merely the preservation of oral tales. One such break in objectivity occurs in the range of responses to the fantastic, when characters are forced to interpret the supernatural or strange events in their lives. At such times, the author allows glimpses of the inner lives of characters, focussing our attention on the way in which characters perceived and dealt with extraordinary occurrences, but also highlighting and thematising the distinctive social context of the early Icelandic community.

Le cosmopolitisme dans la foi Baha’ie : vers la négociation d’une identité internationale

L’époque contemporaine est marquée par la mobilité des personnes, des biens et des idées. Dans ce contexte, les différences se côtoient et s’entrechoquent. Diverses stratégies sont mises de l’avant par les gouvernements, les groupes ou les individus pour réagir à ces nouveaux paradigmes. Nous montrons que la religion peut fournir un point d’ancrage et un cadre de signification partagé en reliant les gens dans un même espace-temps. L’étude de la communauté baha'ie de Montréal, un groupe religieux transnational qualifié de vieille « nouvelle religion », a permis de mettre en lumière l’articulation de l’idéologie cosmopolite, tant dans le message religieux que dans son appropriation par les membres. Cette idéologie est également une source d’inspiration dans la construction d’une identité baha'ie internationale puisqu’elle définit aussi l’appartenance à la communauté et qui se traduit par une appartenance au monde. L’identité religieuse est ici favorisée au détriment de l’identité ethnique tandis que l’accent est mis sur la diversité plutôt que l’homogénéité de la communauté. Les baha'is partagent des représentations collectives et un répertoire symbolique qui définissent leur projet de gouvernance mondiale. C’est dans ce contexte qu’ils allient les stratégies institutionnelles et personnelles pour reconnaître la place de tous en tant que citoyens du monde, et ce, dans la mise en place du « village global » baha'i.

Words, words, words: Philology and Beyond: Festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday

This Festschrift comprises a series of papers written in honour of the philologist Andreas Fischer, on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. As in Andreas Fischer s own research, the main focus of the volume is on words: words in modern varieties, such as emergent conjunctions in Australian, American and British English; words in their cultural and historical context, such as English keywords in Old Norse literature; and words in a diachronic perspective, such as Romance suffixation in the history of English. Many contributions are anchored in the philological tradition that has informed much of Andreas Fischer s own scholarship, such as the study of verbal duelling in the late thirteenth-century romance Kyng Alisaunder. Others examine the construction ofdiscourses, such as those surrounding the Black Death. The volume, with its innovative studies,offers fascinating insights into words, discourses,and their contexts, both past and present.

Studiën over de metriek van het alliteratievers.

Oudnoorsche metriek.--Angelsaksische en Duitsche metriek.--Oorsprong en ontwikkeling van het alliteratievers.

Von der sprache der götter und geister; bedeutungsgeschichtliche untersuchungen zur homerischen und eddischen göttersprache,

Bibliographical foot-notes.

Bidrag till den germaniska omljudsläran, med hufvudsakligt afseende pa Forn-Norskan /

Thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala, 1865.