The sagas of Icelanders contain a great wealth of personal names both of historical and fictional nature. Personal names function both as identifiers for individuals but also evoke associations that supersede the name’s lexical or identifying meaning, for example, cultural or social associations such as age, ethnicity, and ideology. This article examines personal names as a source within a source and appraises the use of literary and socio-onomastics in the context of the Íslendingasögur using the example of the elusive difference between “Icelanders” and “Norwegians” in the sagas. The onomastic analysis is based on seven shorter tales and explores the differences in personal names in Icelandic and Norwegian individuals. Based on the onomas...
This thesis argues that the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic literature which pertains to Iceland conta...
The study of place-names containing personal names is a neglected field in onomastics, despite being...
Fiction may be imbued with a truth to life which is equal to if not superior in value to any factual...
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the meaning of sagas in a European context by analyzing cer...
Nicknames, which occur in all cultures and time periods, play a vital role in highlighting identity,...
are a valuable resource in the study of society and culture in the Viking age. However, for a variet...
The aim of this thesis is to show how character analysis can be used to approach conceptions of saga...
In 1994, discussing the problematic name Swābaharjaz recorded on the Rö stone, Lena Peterson made a ...
Nicknames, which occur in all cultures and time periods, play a unique role in highlighting identity...
The anthroponym Sjøfar ‒ onomastics and genealogyThe Scandinavian peoples were seafarers long before...
Gísla saga súrssonar (thirteenth century) is famous for the tragic destiny of its main character, th...
This article considers the use of names - personal names and place -names - in the short ...
In this article, textual variation with reference to loanwords and respective native words is addres...
The discussion of the Nordic saga corpus has focused mainly on the theoretical analysis of its narra...
Artikkelen handler om ett prosjekt som bestar i en leksikografisk beskrivelse av vokabularet i islen...
This thesis argues that the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic literature which pertains to Iceland conta...
The study of place-names containing personal names is a neglected field in onomastics, despite being...
Fiction may be imbued with a truth to life which is equal to if not superior in value to any factual...
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the meaning of sagas in a European context by analyzing cer...
Nicknames, which occur in all cultures and time periods, play a vital role in highlighting identity,...
are a valuable resource in the study of society and culture in the Viking age. However, for a variet...
The aim of this thesis is to show how character analysis can be used to approach conceptions of saga...
In 1994, discussing the problematic name Swābaharjaz recorded on the Rö stone, Lena Peterson made a ...
Nicknames, which occur in all cultures and time periods, play a unique role in highlighting identity...
The anthroponym Sjøfar ‒ onomastics and genealogyThe Scandinavian peoples were seafarers long before...
Gísla saga súrssonar (thirteenth century) is famous for the tragic destiny of its main character, th...
This article considers the use of names - personal names and place -names - in the short ...
In this article, textual variation with reference to loanwords and respective native words is addres...
The discussion of the Nordic saga corpus has focused mainly on the theoretical analysis of its narra...
Artikkelen handler om ett prosjekt som bestar i en leksikografisk beskrivelse av vokabularet i islen...
This thesis argues that the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic literature which pertains to Iceland conta...
The study of place-names containing personal names is a neglected field in onomastics, despite being...
Fiction may be imbued with a truth to life which is equal to if not superior in value to any factual...