On the mystery cloud of AD 536, a crisis in dispute and epidemic ergotism by Lennart Bondeson, Tobias Bondeson

“…It is also argued for the possibility that the wording in two verses of the Old Norse poem Völuspá actually was inspired by long-time memories of illness due to ergotism. …”
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Saving the “Undoomed Man” In Beowulf (572b-573) by Anderson Salena Sampson

“…(Un)fӕge and its cognates have meanings related to being brave or cowardly, blessed or accursed, and doomed or undoomed. A similar Old Norse proverb also speaks to the significance of the status of unfӕge men. …”
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Lena Liepe: Studies in Fourteenth Century Book Painting by Stefan Drechsler

“…Lena Liepe's monograph "Studies in Fourteenth Century Book Painting" provides a long overdue and newly developed interdisciplinary approach to the overlapping fields of medieval art history and Old Norse-Icelandic philology. The author provides two in-depth articles on two separate illuminated manuscript groups from 14th century Iceland and shows in detail and with great success that the multidiciplinary research of the stated fields is indeed able to give new insights into the production and general cultural background of the investigated illuminated manuscripts. …”
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Voicing the supernatural in Anglo-Saxon England by Coker, M

“…‘Voicing the Supernatural’ argues that as poets translated their subject matter into the Old English poetic medium, they left traces of important historical conceptions about spirituality and poetry: for example, the consistent association between hypermetric lines and divine discourse observed in this dissertation throws into relief the genealogical relationship thought to exist between Old English hypermetric lines and Old Norse <em>ljóðaháttr</em> verse, which is primarily used for mythological and gnomic poems.…”

Pre-literary classical influences on two early Germanic heroic legends by Parkhouse, J

“…The correspondences between the classical and Old Norse texts are additionally studied from an analogical perspective, considering the ways in which they can highlight underlying similarities and differences in the gender dynamics of the cultures that gave rise to the different literary corpora.…”

Words for ‘to speak’ in Old English poetry and the uses poets make of them by Frenkel, M

“…A selective examination of the Old Norse cognate verbs of speech in the poems of the Codex Regius, focussed particularly on segja, forms a forward-looking Epilogue. …”

Teaching and practicing the Quadriga in Medieval Norway: A Reading of Barlaams og Josaphats Saga by Stefka G. Eriksen

“…The primary focus will be on the medium of the book, here exemplified by an Old Norse translation of the pan-European legend about Barlaam and Josaphat as preserved in its main manuscript Holm Perg 6 fol., c. 1250. …”
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Eesti ja kujutlus Eestist Skandinaavia saagades by Tõnno Jonuks

“…The second attitude was probably represented by monks, who regarded the eastern Baltic as a heathen region, and not a part of the Christian world. According to the Old Norse worldview, which was probably still followed, among others, also by the monks, evil beings inhabited a region somewhere east and north of the World of Men. …”
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The social mythology of medieval Icelandic literature by Avis, R, Robert Avis

“…This thesis argues that the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic literature which pertains to Iceland contains an intertextual narrative of the formation of Icelandic identity. …”

The Grave Mound of a Saga Hero by Matthias Egeler

“… ABSTRACT: The article presents a case study within the recent renaissance of folkloristic approaches to Old Norse-Icelandic religious history and saga literature. …”
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Odins viden - dens funktion og betydning by Jens Peter Schjødt

“…First and foremost, it is obvious that Odin has certain functions in old Norse mythology that do not fit in with the "shamanic" interpretation. …”
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Men and Trolls: A Discussion of Race and the Depiction of the Sámi in the Hrafnistumannasögur by Arwen Thysse

“… This article discusses the often stereotyped and essentialized depiction of the Sámi in Old Norse sources in light of recent work on critical race theory and its application to the Middle Ages. …”
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Óðinn og hans ulydige valkyrjer by Else Mundal

“… ABSTRACT: The article presents an overview of the Valkyrie motif in Old Norse sources. The Valkyries have their origins in various religious beliefs and overlap with other female mythological beings. …”
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What Did King Hákon góði Do before the Battle at Fitjar and after the Battle at Avaldsnes? by Andreas Nordberg

“…Roman sources, iconographic motifs from the migration period to the Viking age, as well as information in Old Norse literature, suggest that war dances, intimidating movements, as well as aggressive and incendiary gestures, cries and songs constituted an important aspect of warfare among Germanic and Scandinavian peoples. …”
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Puruṣa: Offer, kosmos, menneske by Mikael Aktor

“…This myth is known in the Old Norse material as the myth of the jǫtunn Ymir and in the Indian material as the myth of Puruṣa. …”
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Standardising 400 years of speech: Norsk Ordbok and its dialect materials by Grønvik, O, Wetås, Å

“…Norwegian linguistic history has documentation gaps, resulting from Old Norse being replaced with Danish (ca 1400-1900), which again was replaced with two written would-be standards, Nynorsk (1860 onwards) and Bokmål (from ca 1900, originally Danish modified towards educated Noregian speech). …”

A dictionary universe or the meta-dictionary by Ore, C

“…</p><p>The meta-dictionary has proven to be a very useful tool in the practical editing of NO2014, and is currently being developed for an Old Norse project.</p><p>The meta-dictionary has in itself become a valuable repository. …”

Ohtrasti ohte by Santeri Junttila

“…In addition, I propose a borrowing from Old Norse ótti < Proto-Scandinavian *ohtō ‘fear’. Mingled with the inherited *ohto (< *ehto) ‘choice, possibility’, the loanword has acquired the meaning ‘possibility of sth. fearful, i.e. danger, menace, risk’, making in turn the inherited *ohto – meaning ‘choice or help against evil’ – still visible in Old Literary Estonian oht, and further ‘(herbal) medicine, drug, antidote’. …”
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BRAND EQUITY IN RURAL MARKETS by Sakshi Shivam, Peto Karoly

“…The word "brand" derives from the Old Norse "brandr" meaning "to burn" - recalling the practice of producers burning their mark (or brand) onto their products. …”
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Rhyming grammars and Celtic phonology by Kern, Gretchen

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