Browsing Vikingtid og nordisk middelalder by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)The medieval cult of saints community was a dense, pervasive network that spread across the vast expanse of Latin Christendom. Saints were international in nature and as such could be easily transported to other geographical ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis discusses how the elderly are represented in the four Icelandic family sagas, Laxdæla saga, Brennu-Njáls saga, Eyrbyggja saga and Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar. It looks to analyse what ‘old’ is, what the signs ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)While the Dindshenchas has appeared sporadically within academia, it was not until the turn of this century that the corpus started to earn consistent interest. However, due to its size and continued presence in manuscripts, ...
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Authenticity vs. Cultural Conformity: The Interpretation of Norse Literature for a Japanese Audience (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)The Norse gods and Norse literature has been adapted and interpreted numerous times, yet the study of Norse reception in Japan is seldom explored. In Japanese media featuring the Norse gods as characters, their personalities, ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Fra langt tilbake i tid har det vært kjent at foreldre i hele Europa har overlatt oppfostringen av egne barn til andre eller på annen måte har forlatt egne barn. Hvor de ble etterlatt, og årsaken til at de etterlot barna ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)Oppgaven tar for seg husholdsopprettelsesprosessen i fristatstidens Island slik denne fremstilles i islendingesagaene Egils saga, Laxdæla saga og Njåls saga, samt samtidssagaen Islendinga saga. Husholdsopprettelsesprosessen ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)I denne oppgaven har jeg forsøkt å se på ulike forklaringsmodeller for hvorfor Hamar bispedømme ble opprettet. Til dette har jeg brukt tilgjengelig kildemateriell fra tiden før og etter opprettelsen. Den forskningen som ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)The saga corpus contains numerous accounts of supernatural humans, be they monstrous beings like berserkir and draugr, or wielding inhuman powers and communing directly with the supernatural as an innate part of their ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)The aim of this master thesis is to identify the impact of animals in the imagery of the societies in the Scandinavian Iron Age and the Viking age through written and archaeological sources. The figure of the animal is ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Hvor stavkirkene har sin opprinnelse og hvordan nye konstruksjonsprinsipper slo gjennom i 1100-tallets stavkirkearkitektur er fremdeles sentrale emner for forskningsdebatten. Stavkirkenes unike stilling i Europas ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)Outlawry in Medieval Scandinavia as a subject of academic interest has been growing more popular in recent years. But now, as in the 1930s when the topic first took off among Dutch and German scholars, the focus seems set ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This thesis aims to investigate with an interdisciplinary approach the role that the beverage “ale” had in late Iron/Viking Age society. The survey, however, focuses on the relationship that women in the Viking Age had ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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Cats in Context - Archaeological evidence of human-cat relationships in Scandinavia and Iceland 200-1100 CERestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Drinking ceremonies played a very important social role in Viking Age Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England. This thesis will seek to illuminate these ceremonies by following the terms minni and bragarfull through the sources, ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis examines whether, when and how the Norse in the Hebrides choose to adapt to local circumstances and, in particular, their choice to accept Christianity. The Norse settled in the Hebrides from circa AD 800; the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The purpose of my master thesis is to focus on the religious beliefs of the free farmers during the 10th century in Norway. I chose this particular century first and foremost because it represents the pitch of the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)Eschewing for lack of evidence notions of an Old Norse “mind” which transgresses the body through breath or is operatively breath, this study adopts and applies conceptual metaphor theory and other cognitive perspectives ...