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Fletta eftir deild "Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies (UI)"
Atriði 21-39 af 39
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2020-05-18)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. ... -
(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2021-03)This dissertation presents the results of a cross-cultural study of emotive representation in several European versions of one Arthurian story, that of the Knight with the Lion. It offers an intertextual comparison of the (re)drawing of emotionality ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2020-08)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, ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023)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, ...
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On the Receiving End: The Role of Scholarship, Memory, and Genre in Constructing Ljósvetninga saga (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2019-10)Ljósvetninga saga takes place in Northern Iceland during the tenth and eleventh centuries and focuses on the political maneuverings of the chieftain Guðmundr inn ríki Eyjólfsson and his son Eyjólfr. Most of the academic debate surrounding Ljósvetninga ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2018)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 ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Íslensku- og menningardeild, 2020-08)Í ritgerðinni er leitað svara við því hvernig nafn höfundarins, Williams Faulkners, varð til og þróaðist á íslenskum menningarvettvangi frá því að það bar fyrst á góma í íslenskum prentmiðli 8. maí 1933 og þar til sjöunda og síðasta þýðing Kristjáns ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2021-10-06)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 ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Íslensku- og menningardeild, 2021)Saga Nonna fjallar um bernskuminningar Jóns Sveinssonar (1857–1944), Nonnabækurnar svokölluðu, ímyndir aðalsöguhetjunnar og aðdráttarafl bókanna. Nonnabækurnar eru tólf talsins. Sjö þeirra fjalla um bernskuævintýri Nonna og eru þær meginviðfangsefni ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2022-02)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) ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023-10-13)Í Gesta Danorum eftir Saxo Grammaticus ásamt Snorra-Eddu og Heimskringlu, þremur af mikilvægustu sagnaritum Norðurlanda frá upphafi 13. aldar, er notast við evhemerisma til að skýra trúarbrögð hinna heiðnu forfeðra. Grundvallarhugmynd evhemerismans er ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Íslensku- og menningardeild, 2017-09-08)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 ...
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(2019-12-15)This thesis is a study of the interface between sociolinguistics and syntax, focusing on 19 th -century Icelandic and the implementation of a national standard language from a syntactic perspective. Icelandic is noted for relatively successful and ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2020-11)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 ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2021)The thesis examines what I term spectral memories in Icelandic culture and focuses on the interplay between memory, identity and the haunted imagination in contemporary literary texts and visual works of art. I employ the term “spectral” to define ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2019-06-03)ARINBJARNARKVIÐA is an Old Norse poem in the kviðuháttr meter. It is composed in praise of Arinbjǫrn Þórisson, a friend of the skald Egill Skallagrímsson. The only source of the poem, except for a few citations in scholarly work, is page 99v in the ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023-04-05)Abstract The theoretical aim of this project is to get a better understanding of the so called weight effects illustrated in examples like the following (? = a questionable example, * = a bad example, ** = an even worse example; brackets enclose the ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Íslensku- og menningardeild, 2019-09-23)Í ritgerðinni er fjallað um þýdd ævintýri í íslenskum handritum. Meginheimildir rannsóknarinnar eru tvö handrit, AM 657 a-b 4to (um 1350) og AM 624 4to (um 1500). Veitt er yfirlit yfir þróun dæmisagnahefðarinnar í Evrópu frá Gregoríusi mikla og fram á ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Íslensku- og menningardeild, 2020-01-24)Í þessari ritgerð er fjallað um valdar skáldsögur Vigdísar Grímsdóttur í því skyni að varpa nýju ljósi á einkenni þeirra og viðtökur. Eftirtaldar sögur eru til umfjöllunar: Stúlkan í skóginum (1992), Þögnin (2000), trílógían Þrenningin (Frá ljósi til ...
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