Jómsvíkinga saga er meðal elstu varðveittu veraldlegra sagna á Íslandi. Hún hefur að öllum líkindum verið skrifuð á fyrri hluta 13. aldar en er varðveitt í fjórum ólíkum gerðum frá miðöldum í jafnmörgum handritum. Fræðileg umfjöllun um söguna hefur ...

This thesis addresses the coexistence and interplay of loanwords and their corresponding endogenous synonyms during the Old and Middle Icelandic period (12th c.–1550), i.e. in a period with no ideologically rooted nor overtly expressed language purism. ...

This work investigates the multivalent and dynamic portrayal of time in a selection of early Old Icelandic texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The main objective is to map out the representations of time in terms of the patterns conveyed, ...

Until relatively recent times, the late medieval Icelandic romances, or frumsamdar riddarasögur (indigenous riddarasögur) have been considered to be of little critical value. Some of the defining features of the genre, such as exotic settings, ...

The present thesis explores how the anthropological concept of liminality can be applied to the corpus of the Íslendingasögur and how this unprecedented, interdisciplinary discussion contributes to the understanding of the sagas themselves as well as ...

The present dissertation concerns formal aspects of Polish borrowing in 21st-century Wymysorys – a minority Germanic language spoken by a few dozen people in the town of Wilamowice in Poland. By drawing on modern borrowing theories and his own empirical ...

The goal of the current study is to throw light on a rather neglected part of Icelandic literary and cultural history: Imagery in early Icelandic hymn poetry. More specifically, it is an investigation into the poet Ólafur Jónsson á Söndum’s (c1560–1627) ...

Í rannsókninni er sjónum beint að þeim hugmyndafræðilega grunni sem málfræðikennsla í grunnskólum á Íslandi, skólamálfræðin, byggist á til að leggja til umræðunnar um hvað eigi að kenna í málfræði og hvers vegna. Gengið er út frá að nemendur þurfi ...

Guðmundur Erlendsson of Fell in Sléttuhlíð (c. 1595–1670) was one of the leading poets of seventeenth-century Iceland. No man is an island, however, nor are islands populated exclusively by men. The thesis examines how Guðmundur Erlendsson’s poetry and ...

Sagnadansar eru munnleg kvæðagrein sem fyrst mun hafa borist hingað til lands frá Noregi og Færeyjum og síðar frá Danmörku. Kvæðagreinin á sér rætur á evrópskum miðöldum og á Norðurlöndum er hún fyrirferðarmikill menningararfur, sérstaklega í Danmörku ...