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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Snorres Edda, og med den Skáldskaparmál, har alltid høstet mye oppmerksomhet fra filologer og andre middelalderforskere, og Snorre regnes for å være den første til å systematisere det norrøne skaldespråket. I Skáldskaparmáls ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Formålet med avhandlingen var å se nærmere på Otto von Frisens teori om at den angelsaksiske runen v var forelegget for de skandinaviske punkterte runene. Denne teorien ble første gang presentert av von Friesen i Reallexicon ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I denne avhandlingen undersøker jeg drømmemotivets funksjon i islendingesagaer. Beskrivelser av drømmer forekommer ofte i islendingesagaer, og de gir vanligvis et frempek til ting som kommer til å skje. Sagadrømmer går ...

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 ...

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 ...