Browsing Vikingtid og nordisk middelalder by Title
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)In order to answer the seemingly simple question of what caused the rapprochement between Man and Norway in 1152/53, the first recorded contact since Magnús Berrf ttr s expeditions to the British Isles in 1098-1103, this ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis will examine marriage in the sagas of chivalries, in order to characterise the sagas' example for Hákon Hákonarson's court as "civilising" or "un-civilising". My definition of "civilised" will be determined by ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)Denne avhandlingen gir en oversikt av kilder og forskningshistorie om dronning Gunnhild, kongsmor, kona til Eirik blodøks og mor til hans barn. Hun er med i 20 ulike kilder, både latinske krøniker og norrøne konge- og ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Denne oppgaven er en undersøkelse av erkeengelen Mikaels tilstedeværelse i det norrøne middelaldersamfunnet i perioden ca. 900-1500. Mikael synes å ha fått en sentral plass i middelalderens mentalitet på bakgrunn av hans ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This thesis explores the modern reception of Old Norse literary culture in video games, a sphere of global popular culture which is heretofore unexplored in the field of Old Norse studies. This topic is relevant in light ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The purpose of this inquiry is to investigate whether an exploration of Níðhöggr and Miðgarðsormr through the theme of order and chaos is a viable mechanism for revealing facets of Old Norse mythic consciousness and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)The Norse werewolf is a joint term under which the author has chosen to subsume the diversity of motives based on or containing elements of lupine therianthropy within the Old Norse literary corpus. The purpose of the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2003)With the introduction of Christianity to Norway, this country naturally drew on impulses from ecclesiastical and cultural centres abroad, including various types of Christian imagery. Being a central motif in Christian art ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)The goal of this thesis is to develop a method of understanding coin distribution in Norway in order to identify probable locations for mints. This is done by comparing the distribution of English coin finds from the Middle ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)This thesis gathers and examines the rich literary evidence for the runic script. The contents of such runic sequences are analysed through the prism of the preserved runic epigraphic material from about the same period ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)Odin and Zeus. A comparative study on the supreme gods of two mythologies. is a comparative analysis of Odin and Zeus and of the mythologies they belong to. The study follows Georges Dumézil s theory of tripartite ideology ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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Old English and Old Norse Mutual Intelligibility: Language Contact and Patterns of AccommodationRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)The focus of this thesis is a statistically grounded analysis of early 14th century Norwegian sound patterns using an electronically transcribed corpus of thirty-one royal charters written by four named scribes between ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)The archaeological and literary records often appear to be at odds with oneanother when analyzed in the academic mileau. Identifying what sources are and are not reliable and accurate is one of the larger arguments in ...
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Óláfr and the Queens. Gender, Queenship and Kingship Ideologies in the Separate saga of Saint Óláfr (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This essay aims to be an interpretive reading of the Hêliand as a reconciliatory work, where I try to gain greater insight into what strategies were used by the recently converted Saxons in coping with the forced conversions ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)The title of this dissertation Peace in their time? A study of the Norwegian medieval peace-period: 1046-1157 , implies two problems. The first one is to find out if there was peace within the given timeframe and then ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)The thesis deals with the presence of crusading ideology in medieval Sweden and its political impact. In old Swedish historiography the conquest of Finland was ascribed to three Swedish crusades taking place in 1156, 1249 ...