ARINBJARNARKVIÐA is an Old Norse poem in the kviðuháttr meter. It is composed in praise of Arinbjǫrn Þórisson, a friend of the skald Egill Skallagrímsson. The only source of the poem, except for a few citations in scholarly work, is page 99v in the 14th-century Möðruvallabók. This page is now mostly unreadable, but old transcripts of it exist. In this thesis, I present a new transcript of page 99v, and I publish a restored text of the poem. The general belief among scholars has been that only the beginning of ARINBJARNARKVIÐA is preserved. It is also commonly assumed that the meter is of little help, for instance, in detecting corrupt lines and for clarifying the meaning of the text. I address these and other issues using new mult...
The present work is intended to be a contribution in the study of kennings (special rhetorical figur...
"This book began as a doctoral thesis at the University of Iceland in the Faculty of Icelandic and C...
Meginefni þessarar ritgerðar eru kenningar. Rætt verður um notkun og mikilvægi þeirra. Þess vegna ve...
There is a great deal of long-neglected late- or post-medieval Icelandic literature which has only r...
Í sjö og hálfa öld hafa eddukvæði varðveist á bókfelli (Codex Regius). Í þessari ritgerð beinist ath...
The paper discusses the metre and the diction of a previously unpublished small poem about character...
This study provides both a synchronic analysis of scribal approaches to layout and punctuation of La...
Á miðri 17. öld samdi eitt þekktasta skáld Íslendinga, Hallgrímur Pétursson, rímur um aðalsöguhetju ...
Rendering skaldic poetry into another language is a challenge for translators. The main feature of t...
The present work investigates the eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál through a theoretical lens constructed by...
The Old Norse Svipdagsmál is a composite piece of eddic poetry which comprises two complementary poe...
Despite existing more than 1000 years apart, Old English and Modern Icelandic are closely related la...
The sagnakvæði, narrative poems composed in the eddic metre fornyrðislag, are found only in manuscri...
Í íslenskum miðaldalögum eru engin ákvæði um höfundarrétt. Höfundar nýttu sér hiklaust sögutexta ann...
Egils saga Skallagrímssonar is renowned for the poetry it contains as well as for its narrative pros...
The present work is intended to be a contribution in the study of kennings (special rhetorical figur...
"This book began as a doctoral thesis at the University of Iceland in the Faculty of Icelandic and C...
Meginefni þessarar ritgerðar eru kenningar. Rætt verður um notkun og mikilvægi þeirra. Þess vegna ve...
There is a great deal of long-neglected late- or post-medieval Icelandic literature which has only r...
Í sjö og hálfa öld hafa eddukvæði varðveist á bókfelli (Codex Regius). Í þessari ritgerð beinist ath...
The paper discusses the metre and the diction of a previously unpublished small poem about character...
This study provides both a synchronic analysis of scribal approaches to layout and punctuation of La...
Á miðri 17. öld samdi eitt þekktasta skáld Íslendinga, Hallgrímur Pétursson, rímur um aðalsöguhetju ...
Rendering skaldic poetry into another language is a challenge for translators. The main feature of t...
The present work investigates the eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál through a theoretical lens constructed by...
The Old Norse Svipdagsmál is a composite piece of eddic poetry which comprises two complementary poe...
Despite existing more than 1000 years apart, Old English and Modern Icelandic are closely related la...
The sagnakvæði, narrative poems composed in the eddic metre fornyrðislag, are found only in manuscri...
Í íslenskum miðaldalögum eru engin ákvæði um höfundarrétt. Höfundar nýttu sér hiklaust sögutexta ann...
Egils saga Skallagrímssonar is renowned for the poetry it contains as well as for its narrative pros...
The present work is intended to be a contribution in the study of kennings (special rhetorical figur...
"This book began as a doctoral thesis at the University of Iceland in the Faculty of Icelandic and C...
Meginefni þessarar ritgerðar eru kenningar. Rætt verður um notkun og mikilvægi þeirra. Þess vegna ve...