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The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature
This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely conservative form of …
Skaldsagas
Germanische Altertumskunde Online (Germanic Antiquity Studies Online) – just like the Reallexikon that has merged with it – is accompanied by supplementary volumes. This series …
Interrogating the ‘Germanic’
Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or …
Runes Across the North Sea from the Migration Period and Beyond
The scattered research history of the Old Frisian runic inscriptions dating to the early Medieval period (ca. AD 400–1000) calls for a comprehensive and systematic reprocessing of …
Avaldsnes - A Sea-Kings' Manor in First-Millennium Western Scandinavia
The Royal manor Avaldsnes in southwest Norway holds a rich history testified by 13th century sagas and exceptional graves from the first millennium AD. In 2011–12 the settlement …
Men in the Middle
This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. As clerics living among the laity, priests played a double role within their …
Runes and Roman Letters in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
This book presents the first comprehensive study of Anglo-Saxon manuscript texts containing runic letters. To date there has been no comprehensive study of these works in a single …
Engaging Moments
This book presents the first collection of the earliest West Germanic bridal-quest narratives together with a comparative study of them. In contrast to earlier studies, the author …
Phonological Evidence from the Continental Runic Inscriptions
The linguistic analysis of runic inscriptions on the Continent tends to focus on individual texts or on groups of texts seen as parallel. We can advance our understanding of the …
Narrating Law and Laws of Narration in Medieval Scandinavia
Disputes lie at the heart of the sagas. Consequently, literary texts have been treated as sources of legal practice – narrations of law – while the sagas themselves and the …
The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry
This book is a formal and functional study of the three distinct meters of Old Norse eddic poetry, fornyrðislag, málaháttr, and ljóðaháttr. It provides a systematic account of …
Archaeology, history and biosciences
New scientific methods offer new insights in the past. Promising opportunities for archaeology and historiography are confronted with the challenges of interdisciplinary …