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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This paper examines the introduction of sail power to the ships of Scandinavia during an approximate 350 year period from just before the beginning of, and to the end of, the Viking Era. The Viking Era being bookmarked ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
There is very thin scholarship regarding the activities of the people of medieval Finland and their contribution to the Varangian period. The history of medieval Finland is affected by thin historiography, due to a combination ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The scribal milieu in Scania produced two texts wherein the entire main text is written in a variety of medieval runes between the late-13th and mid-14th centuries. Despite their unique form, Codex Runicus (AM 28 8vo) and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Surgery and Miracle in Old Norse Literature Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Surgery is far from a prevalent issue contained in the Old Norse sagas. The sagas, however, are the most significant sources available for insights into medieval perceptions of this practice, in Scandinavia. This thesis ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Marie of Oignies (Maria Oigniacensis) was a 'mulier relgiosa' who lived in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century in the southern Low Countries. Upon her death, she was immortalized by the cleric Jacques de Vitry, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis primarily focuses on the motifs of animal transformations and the progression of time as they appear in medieval Irish literature. While scholars have previously written in depth about each motif as an individual ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The most influential document depicting the Pre-Christian custom in Europe is by far Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum. The Gesta functions as a historical narrative documenting the achievements ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis is aiming to be a qualitative, descriptive study conducted through close reading of two texts of the Irish tradition: The Death of Muirchertach Mac Erca and The Second Battle of Mag Tuired. The purpose of this ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Woden, alongside his Norse complement Óðinn, is a figure that has continued to fascinate and persist within England’s cultural consciousness. In this thesis, the multifaceted nature of Woden’s usage post-Conversion will ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis analyses the television series Vikings and The Last Kingdom for their construction of ‘Viking’ and ‘Anglo-Saxon’ identities, particularly looking at the use of ‘personal’ identity as a tool of cultural memory ...
(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 ...
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, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The Maskovichi Inscriptions: A Critical Analysis and Their Implications for the Assimilation of Vikings in the Belarussian Braslav District Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Old Norse religion is a subject of great curiosity and fantasy, and images such as the scene described in Ahmed Ibn Fadlan’s account of the Rús burial lend to humanity’s almost obsessive fascination with what comes after ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
In the course of history, many different pathways have been attempted by scholars trying to solve the problem of the rise and development of Gmc strong class VII, with special reference to the question if they are the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Samanfall av /w/ og [β] i trøndske mellomalderbrev samanlikna med utviklinga moderne dialekter. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
På Sørvestlandet kan bøyningsendelsen til adjektivet i førsteleddet i sammensatte stedsnavn formelt vise tilbake på oblik kasus i gammelnorsk, f.eks. Djupadal, gno. mas. nom. djúpi, obl. djúpa; Storemyr, gno. fem. nom. ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis aims to present the criteria that could possibly be used to determine the social status of the people mentioned in runic memorial inscriptions. The time frame chosen for the corpus used for the study is the ...
(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, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The aim of this thesis is to consider a selection of recently excavated Viking Age farms and cult sites, Norse texts, and textual motifs related to pre-Christian cult buildings in the Viking Age, and to undertake a ...
(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 ...
Etymology and Etiology in Snorri’s Gylfaginning Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Etymologies and etiologies are widespread literary devices in medieval literacy. It is then not a surprise to find them in Old Norse texts as well. The present thesis will focus on Snorri Sturluson’s Edda, and more ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The Arabic word majūs, while initially used as an exonym for Zoroastrians in the Middle East, was used in al-Andalus, medieval Muslim Spain, for a variety of people. It became best known, however, as the appellation used ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis will examine how traditions and rituals, pre-Christian and pagan, were integrated, reordered, and flourished in Christian doctrine before the Reformation, and how these phenomena may have influenced the symbolism ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Hlǫðskviða and Wīdsīð are two Germanic alliterative poems whose current forms are attested in texts written in separate languages, periods, and regions: the former in Old Norse-Icelandic from late-medieval Iceland, and the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Gísli Súrsson: A Drama is a play by the late-Victorian author Beatrice Helen Barmby. This largely overlooked adaptation of the Old Norse Gísla saga Súrssonar is representative of the nineteenth-century British appreciation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The following thesis belongs in the field of philological studies with a focus on the Irish language, particularly that of the 1200-1400s and the text known as Agallamh na Senórach. This is a thirteenth-century prosimetrical ...
(Master thesis, Group thesis / Masteroppgave, Gruppeoppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Snorra Edda belongs to the most famous works of medieval Icelandic literature. The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze five medieval manuscripts produced during the fourteenth century transmitting the whole Snorra ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis examines the impact of terminology usage on the study of past diseases, using leprosy as case example. The archaeological and historical contributions to the scholarship on medieval leprosy are examined, and a ...
The Norse Hero Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The Micillo-Males hypothesis proposes that the second part of The Third Grammatical Treatise (ca 1250) by Óláfr Þórðarson is based on a commentary of the insular tradition on Donatus’ third book of the Ars maior. This paper ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The present thesis aims to investigate the scribes who contributed to the manuscript Stockholm Islandica perg. nr. 5 folio, establishing differences and connections between the texts and the hands in the manuscript. This ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Et knippe relikvier, og tre tapte helgenskrin fra norsk middelalder Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Denne masteravhandlingen er et forsøk på starten på å samle relikvier og relikvarier i Norge fra middelalderen. De fleste relikviene og relikvariene ligger spredd rundt omkring i forskjellige museer og kirker, uten at det ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Slavery in the Viking Age was a common practice throughout Scandinavia and the Scandinavian diaspora with the use of slaves socially, culturally, and economically, depending on the region in which they existed. Their ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis examines the social history of wagons from the Viking Age with a focus upon connections to gender, mythology, ceremonial purposes, and interment contexts. The aim is explore examples from the archaeological, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis examines the runic inscriptions of Bryggen in Bergen as well as the Old Norwegian corpus currently consisting of four texts in the Menotec corpus of Old Norwegian, with regard to modified noun phrases. The ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
During the early medieval period in Scandinavia, writing could be accomplished using one of two different writing systems. Runes had been in use since long before the Viking Age, and stayed in use until the late Middle ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Violence and violent death in the pre-Christian Scandinavian Viking Age are both particular research topics for various reasons. The cultural and social entanglements in the complex system of interpersonal violence in this ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The paper compares and contrasts Kaupang and Dublin as two early Viking Age towns. While the importance of Kaupang as a permanent settlement and active trading partner throughout the Scandinavian trade network has only ...
Cats in Context - Archaeological evidence of human-cat relationships in Scandinavia and Iceland 200-1100 CE Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Tracing the motif: A comparative analysis of a motif from Gotland’s Picture Stones and Late Scythian Steles with a new methodological approach Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This study inspects the mental processes underpinning the use of imagery in the kennings of five skaldic poems: Vellekla, Hákonardrápa, Øxarflokkr, Íslendingadrápa, and Ævikviða Grettis Ásmundarsonar. It is argued that the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The Ways of the Norse Pilgrim, A Study of Textual Diversity in Medieval Norwegian Pilgrimage Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Realities and Representations: Alcohol in the Aggrandizer in the Early Medieval West Norse World Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis is a comparative study of Grettis saga and Króka-Refs saga, two Icelandic Sagas from the 14th century. The aim of this study is to present these sagas in the context of historical, legal and cultural influences, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This study sets out to examine Dublin between 980 and 1054; more particularly it assesses the role of socio-political networks in maintaining power in Ireland. Associations between the Irish kingdoms and the Hiberno-Scandinavian ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
It is well known that Snorra Edda seeks to preserve and promote skaldic verse, heavily focusing on what is required to compose and understand such verse. Kevin Wanner, in his book Snorri Sturluson and the Edda, has argued ...
The God on the Windy Tree: Christian Origins of the Figure of Wodan in the Cross-cultural Relations of Northern Europe Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The myth of Óðinn hanging on the tree resembles, in a number of ways, the legend of Christ hanging on the Cross―self-sacrifice and wounding by a spear for example. Scholarship has largely focussed on these parallels, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The Scandinavian casket of the Museum of San Isidoro in León, Spain, as leitmotif will link the culture of the two peninsulas, Scandinavia and Iberia, in the 10th and 11th centuries, providing an additional source beyond ...
A Coin Out of the Ground: Routes of Contact between Anglo-Saxon England and Scandinavia, c. 990-1030
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Archaeological excavations in Scandinavian countries have uncovered hundreds of thousands of coins from across the early Medieval World. The ability to precisely date these coins to a time and place allows scholars to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Jomfru Maria var en skikkelse som holdt en svært sentral posisjon i troslivet i norrøn kultur i middelalderen. Hun fikk mange kirker viet til seg, det ble skrevet mye litteratur til hennes ære, hun fikk et alter viet til ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Denne avhandlingen tar for seg vokalharmoni og fonologisk u-omlyd i diplomer og runeinnskrifter fra Trøndelag ca. 1150-1310. Ved å foreta en analyse av de to fenomenene i diplomene og runeinnskriftene undersøker jeg hvordan ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This is a comparative literary study comparing Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss, an Íslendingasaga, with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as well as several fornaldarsögur. This thesis hypothesizes each of these contains a single ...
The Body Electron: Luminosity of the Brísingamen Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis compares Stjórn I and de Rijmbijbel, two medieval vernacular translations of the Bible mediated through Historia Scholastica. Rita Copeland has studied medieval translation strategies and come to the conclusion ...