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Norse and Viking Ramblings: February 2015
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Norse and Viking Ramblings. A gentle wander through the Viking world. Friday, 27 February 2015. For many years now I have been thinking about the meanings of these words, and frequently trying to explain them to people. It's not a simple matter, so I get frustrated but am not surprised when I read incomprehensible, or even just wrong, statements like this one, from a press release issued by the Field Museum in Chicago, where a Viking exhibition opens today. M), and víking. Derives from Old Norse vík.
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Norse and Viking Ramblings: All Over the Place
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Norse and Viking Ramblings. A gentle wander through the Viking world. Monday, 4 May 2015. All Over the Place. Inspired by the news that that stupid organisation Facebook apparently has located the lovely Baltic island of Gotland (see the view of Visby to the right) in the equally lovely country of Norway. I turned to that monumental mine of information on Norwegian farm-names, Oluf Rygh's. Published 1897-1936, but available on the internet since 1999. In the north of Norway. The. Are pronounced different...
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Norse and Viking Ramblings: May 2014
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Norse and Viking Ramblings. A gentle wander through the Viking world. Saturday, 17 May 2014. The Birth of Norway. Today the Norwegians celebrate the bicentenary of their constitution, and their freedom from Danish rule. Til lykke med dagen! Although they did not achieve full independence until 1905, the adoption of the constitution in 1814 marks the birth of the modern nation of Norway. Of Denmark (which also gets a mention in the inscription). Górr sets off immediately to search for his sister by ship '...
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Norse and Viking Ramblings: Sword-Girl
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Norse and Viking Ramblings. A gentle wander through the Viking world. Tuesday, 29 January 2013. Most Vikingologists will already be aware of the small metal figurine (apparently it's silver) found by a detectorist last year on the island of Fyn in Denmark, and depicted on Martin Rundkvist's Aardvarchaeology blog earlier this month. But clearly I wasn't paying that much attention, since there is in fact a valkyrie-kenning. To be published next month, edited by Matt Townend in vol. I of. Finally, I did won...
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Norse and Viking Ramblings: 'The Day Did Not Achieve its Beautiful Colour'
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Norse and Viking Ramblings. A gentle wander through the Viking world. Tuesday, 17 March 2015. The Day Did Not Achieve its Beautiful Colour'. Halfdan Egedius, 1899. Torgils og Grim fører Olavs Lig bort. Image from Wikimedia Commons. The Stout' Haraldsson (later St Óláfr) at the battle of. Modern Stiklestad) in the year 1030. Astronomers tell us that there was a solar eclipse on 31 August in that year, but how closely it coincided with the actual battle is far from clear. Undr láta þat ýtar. Great was the ...
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Norse and Viking Ramblings: Of Dragons and Longships
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Norse and Viking Ramblings. A gentle wander through the Viking world. Monday, 7 July 2014. Of Dragons and Longships. Erik Werenskiold, 'Slaget ved Solskjel'. The media are currently reporting. On the interrupted journey (because of a broken mast) of what is being touted as the 'largest replica Viking longship', the. There are so many potential misunderstandings, just in the name of the ship, let alone that description of it, that the academic in your blogstress just cannot resist putting her oar in.
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Norse and Viking Ramblings: June 2014
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Norse and Viking Ramblings. A gentle wander through the Viking world. Friday, 27 June 2014. Languages, Myths and Finds. Just wanted to give a little plug to a project I have had some involvement with. This has very much been the Year of Vikings, and in particular the splendid exhibition at the British Museum. Now sadly finished, about which I have blogged before. In connection with the exhibition, the Languages, Myths and Finds. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Nottingham, United Kingdom.
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Norse and Viking Ramblings: March 2015
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Norse and Viking Ramblings. A gentle wander through the Viking world. Tuesday, 17 March 2015. The Day Did Not Achieve its Beautiful Colour'. Halfdan Egedius, 1899. Torgils og Grim fører Olavs Lig bort. Image from Wikimedia Commons. The Stout' Haraldsson (later St Óláfr) at the battle of. Modern Stiklestad) in the year 1030. Astronomers tell us that there was a solar eclipse on 31 August in that year, but how closely it coincided with the actual battle is far from clear. Undr láta þat ýtar. Great was the ...
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Norse and Viking Ramblings: July 2015
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Norse and Viking Ramblings. A gentle wander through the Viking world. Thursday, 30 July 2015. Desert Camel by Sherbaz Jamaldini. A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics. 2005, pp. 107-8):. Now modern poetry inspired by or imitative of Old Norse poetry often makes use of kennings and kenning-like constructions, as you can see for example on the excellent. Kennings in the Community. Website. But these are all made by people with at least some acquaintance with the Old Norse tradition and, in their qu...
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Norse and Viking Ramblings: Languages, Myths and Finds
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Norse and Viking Ramblings. A gentle wander through the Viking world. Friday, 27 June 2014. Languages, Myths and Finds. Just wanted to give a little plug to a project I have had some involvement with. This has very much been the Year of Vikings, and in particular the splendid exhibition at the British Museum. Now sadly finished, about which I have blogged before. In connection with the exhibition, the Languages, Myths and Finds. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Nottingham, United Kingdom. The World-Tr...
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