The Old-Icelandic poem Vǫluspá, perhaps the most famous of all eddic poetry, features an encounter between the god Óðinn and the otherworldly mythological figure of the vǫlva who conveys to him and an attendant audience mythological wisdom and prophetic visions. The vǫlva speaks using an “embodied voice,” yet remains timeless: a narrator able both to “recall” in memory the creation of the cosmos and “see” ahead into the future destruction. Two manuscript variants of Vǫluspá, the Konungsbók and Hauksbók texts, exhibit considerable degrees of textual variation. Recent narratological analyses of these texts have yielded insights into the relationship between their common poetic material and their distinct narrative arrangements, as well as int...
Í þessari eigindlegu rannsókn er markmiðið að skýra nokkra þætti við framkvæmd söfnunar þjóðsagna se...
The sagnakvæði, narrative poems composed in the eddic metre fornyrðislag, are found only in manuscri...
The dissertation explores the metamorphosis of myth into poetry and song as reflected in the poetic ...
This thesis explores the construction of speaking-subjects and their subjectivities in medieval Nort...
The present work investigates the eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál through a theoretical lens constructed by...
This thesis examines the multiplicity of ways in which Old Norse-Icelandic authors represented women...
There is a great deal of long-neglected late- or post-medieval Icelandic literature which has only r...
The three versions of Vǫluspá display substantial differences in their references to speaker and aud...
"This book began as a doctoral thesis at the University of Iceland in the Faculty of Icelandic and C...
This thesis examines the figure of the oral storyteller as depicted in various Old Norse literary so...
The term “poetic grammar” refers to the formal patterns that distinguish poetic registers from other...
ARINBJARNARKVIÐA is an Old Norse poem in the kviðuháttr meter. It is composed in praise of Arinbjǫr...
Kersti Ståbi Performing poems from the Poetic Edda I am a folk singer and oral storyteller. In my Ma...
On account of its constitution as a temporally organized sequence of verbal utterances, typically pr...
This thesis is an exploration of the mythological poem Vǫluspá and the nature of knowledge within t...
Í þessari eigindlegu rannsókn er markmiðið að skýra nokkra þætti við framkvæmd söfnunar þjóðsagna se...
The sagnakvæði, narrative poems composed in the eddic metre fornyrðislag, are found only in manuscri...
The dissertation explores the metamorphosis of myth into poetry and song as reflected in the poetic ...
This thesis explores the construction of speaking-subjects and their subjectivities in medieval Nort...
The present work investigates the eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál through a theoretical lens constructed by...
This thesis examines the multiplicity of ways in which Old Norse-Icelandic authors represented women...
There is a great deal of long-neglected late- or post-medieval Icelandic literature which has only r...
The three versions of Vǫluspá display substantial differences in their references to speaker and aud...
"This book began as a doctoral thesis at the University of Iceland in the Faculty of Icelandic and C...
This thesis examines the figure of the oral storyteller as depicted in various Old Norse literary so...
The term “poetic grammar” refers to the formal patterns that distinguish poetic registers from other...
ARINBJARNARKVIÐA is an Old Norse poem in the kviðuháttr meter. It is composed in praise of Arinbjǫr...
Kersti Ståbi Performing poems from the Poetic Edda I am a folk singer and oral storyteller. In my Ma...
On account of its constitution as a temporally organized sequence of verbal utterances, typically pr...
This thesis is an exploration of the mythological poem Vǫluspá and the nature of knowledge within t...
Í þessari eigindlegu rannsókn er markmiðið að skýra nokkra þætti við framkvæmd söfnunar þjóðsagna se...
The sagnakvæði, narrative poems composed in the eddic metre fornyrðislag, are found only in manuscri...
The dissertation explores the metamorphosis of myth into poetry and song as reflected in the poetic ...