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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis demonstrates that there is a compelling link between the ancient northern Bear Cult and Old Norse sagas. This is achieved through analysis of two fornaldarsögur, in terms of ritual framework and the thread of ...

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, ...

In order to investigate the compositional techniques of skaldic poetry and determine if any oral formulae or other compositional methods played a role in the creation of skaldic poetry, I have collected the alliterating ...

The topic of the medieval Icelandic world view during the Commonwealth period has attracted many scholars in recent years; most can agree that this seemingly autonomous, remote island society, asserting its independence ...

Temaet for oppgaven er Håkon den gode og slaget på Rastarkalv på Frei i Kristiansund kommune, Møre og Romsdal. Hovedmålet for oppgaven har vært å finne en forklaring på om gravrøysene kan være spor etter slaget og om årsaken ...

Steinkorsene på Isle of Man fra vikingtid og tidlig middelalder har vært studert og vidt omtalt i forskningen siden slutten av det 18. århundre, men forskningslitteraturen bærer fremdeles mye preg av de samme rådende ...

In this thesis the artistic features of the skaldic poet is analysed in order to reveal the skáld s technical skill and aesthetic features within is work. By doing so, it was attempted to give an insight of how art was ...

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 ...

Vår tradisjonelle historieskrivning forteller at det islandske folk i 999/1000 AD. vedtar å innføre kristendommen i sitt samfunn. Med den nye skikk følger da med tiden også kravet om et nytt kultisk rom for den religiøse ...

Sjøkrig i vikingtiden.

The thesis reviews the role of the Church as an agent for the Europeanization process in the semi-peripheries and the peripheries of the European Christendom in the Middle Ages.

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 ...

Viking metal is a dynamic and popular subgenre of metal music of burgeoning popularity coming primarily from Nordic countries. These musicians use their nations Viking histories and saga material as inspiration for their ...

During the Middle Ages in Norway, the church used different approaches to learn the lay people about sin, death and the life in the hereafter. Homilies, visions and imaging applications were used to communicate with the ...

This thesis is intended as an investigation of knowing how and what a tenth century swordsmith did in relation to crafting Viking swords, particularly focused upon the Norwegian materials and retrospective on previous ...

This thesis deals with the descriptions of insults and feud in Óláfs Saga Helga. It's a multidisciplinary study that examines the source through the disciplines of history, anthropology and philology. The approach is ...

The thesis under the title “The God-semantic Field: A Cognitive Philological Analysis” analyses eight different lexemes that belong to the same semantic field – god. The research is a comparative and contrastive analysis ...

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 ...

The present thesis is a comparative research about death and afterlife in ancient Greek and Viking society making use of both literary sources such as the Eddas and the Homeric epic poems and archaeological evidence including ...

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 ...

Denne avhandlingen presenterer en analyse av liturgi. Den er basert på tekster av fragmenterte manuskripter av breviarer – fra 1100-tallet til 1400-tallet – som er å finne i det norske Riksarkivet. De liturgiske tekstene ...

Masteroppgaven målsetting er å belyse hvordan Harald Hårfagre og rikssamlingen ble oppfattet og anvendt i lys av endringene i det norske samfunn fra 1814 til 1945. I dette arbeidet er det vektlagt hvordan sentrale aktører ...

I denne oppgaven har jeg undersøkt hvordan norsk kulturminneforvaltning på statlig nivå og Vestfold fylkeskommune fremstiller forholdet mellom kulturminner og identitet. Jeg har gjennomgått nyere dokumenter fra organene, ...

This work is intended as an exploration of methods of time-reckoning and conception in Medieval Scandinavia. In the main this is tied to the dynamism between a duality: that of the cyclical and linear models of time’s ...

Oseberggraven har blitt studert grundig, og mange forskere har argumentert for at den er den rikeste kvinnelige grav i Europa. Derfor, må Oseberg være mye mer enn begravelsen av en sekulær hersker. Kvinnene begravet i ...

Formålet med denne oppgaven har vært å komme fram til dialektale trekk ved det gammelnorske språket med forekomster av svake verb i infintiv, presens og preteritum indikativ som eksempler. Disse forekomstene er gjengitt ...

Runematerialet fra Tønsberg består så langt av 39 innskrifter. Målet for denne undersøkelsen har vært å undersøke hvem runeristerne i Tønsberg var, ved å kontekstualisere de forskjellige innskriftene, både i forhold til ...

Oppgaven søker å utforske de arkitektoniske, kulturelle og geistlige sidene rundt Ragnvald Kolssons krav på Orknøyene, hans komme til makten samt hans rolle i grunnleggingen og oppføringen av katedralen som er viet til St. ...

I løpet av de siste tretti årene har norsk kirkeforskning tatt en ny tverrfaglig retning med den kulturgeografiske kirkeforskningen. Denne oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i en av de mest sentrale problemstillingene innenfor denne ...

Formålet med denne oppgaven er å analysere hvordan fortellinger om norsk middelalder har vært med på å gi mening og styrke til aktuell samfunnsdebatt i Norge. Hovedtema for oppgaven er fortellingen om slaget på Stiklestad. ...

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 ...

Denne oppgaven skal identifisere hvem presten er på bakgrunn av en sentral kildegruppe: kristenrettene i de fire landskapslovene. Avhandlingen skal handle om prestens posisjon i samfunnet og samspillet mellom presten og: ...

This paper aims to demonstrate how the honour system in mediaeval Iceland was altered by the Norwegian monarchy using the Sturlunga Saga exclusively as a source. Specifically the focus is on how the Norwegian monarchy ...

Sammandrag Temat för avhandlingen bygger på en observation av de norröna myterna där vanerna framställs som hierarkiskt och socialt underlägsna asarnas grupp. Detta har tidigare uppmärksammats av den religionshistoriska ...

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 ...

The main goal of this study is to investigate Old Norse (ON) influence on Old English (OE), by applying sociolinguistic methods for examining ON and OE parallel words. The methodology applied in this thesis consists of two ...

Oppgaven dreier seg om de 13 kjente middelalderkirkene på Hadeland, og oppgavens mål er å undersøke kirkenes politiske, økonomiske og religiøse status. Dette gjøres med utgangspunkt i tanken om at det er en nær sammenheng ...

Denne masteravhandlingen samler og undersøker det norske runematerialet fra perioden 1325-1500. Avhandlingen forsøker å finne ut når runeskriften døde ut i Norge. Den undersøker også om svartedauden (1349) hadde stor ...

I følge Lyse klosters jordebok fra 1626 eide klosteret et jordegods bestående av over 200 gårder og skyldparter i Hordaland, Sogn og Fjordane og Rogaland. Oppgaven tar for seg omfanget av dette jordegodset med godsstruktur, ...

Denne avhandlingen handler om det norrøne samfunnet på Grønland sin sosiale organisering, og hvorvidt jakt kan ha vært et viktig prinsipp i denne organiseringen. Jeg tar utgangspunkt i de arkeologiske kildene fra Vesterbygden ...

I et feministisk perspektiv undersøker jeg forholdet mellom normer og medisinsk praksis i vikingtid ca. år 800-1050 og middelalder fra ca. 1050-1300 i Norge og på Island, med noen sammenlignende avstikkere til antikkens ...

This thesis mainly focuses on the transformation of the metropolitan authority of Nidaros in course of the 13th century, especially between ca. 1215 and 1285, and the expansion of the influence of the archbishop over the ...

Over the last two centuries, the Vínland Sagas have become some of the most discussed of Medieval Nordic documents. There are arguments about every aspect of the sagas: What the name Vínland means, if Vínland existed, where ...