Browsing Vikingtid og nordisk middelalder by Title
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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, 2021)The infamous Nibelung legend features some of the most impressive female characters in medieval literature. At the heart of this comparative study stand the well- and not-so-well-known women of the Nibelung story-world who ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)I denne avhandlingen har jeg undersøkt oversettelsesstrategier i Stjórn II, som er en av fire norrøne oversettelser av de historiske bøkene i Det gamle testamentet, fra 1. Mosebok til og med 2. Kongebok. Stjórn brukes som ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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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, 2023)
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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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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)As we sojourn deeper into the Anthropocene and face impending ecological crises, it is more important than ever to rediscover and restructure our relationship with the more-than-human world we call home. Examining the ...
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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, 2023)This thesis examines the extent of spatial knowledge of the inhabitants of Kalmar through their physical mobility, as it can be traced in letters and other sources. More specifically, it will analyse the origin and destination ...