Москва; Ленинград.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1953. — 340 с. История скандинавских национальных языков охватывает период с XVI в. по настоящее время. Скандинавские языки этого периода называются новодатским, новошведским и т.д. или чаще просто датским, шведским и т.д. В соответствии с этой периодизацией "Введение" делится на три главы: 1) "Скандинавский язык - основа и...
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1874. — 906 p. An Icelandic-English dictionary is based on the Ms. collections of the late Richard Cleasby. Enlarged and completed by G. Vigfusson. With an introduction and life of Richard Cleasby by G. Webbe Desent. This landmark dictionary of old Icelandic is both authoritative and comprehensive. It offers thousands of illustrative...
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1874. — 906 p. An Icelandic-English dictionary is based on the MS. collections of the late Richard Cleasby. Enlarged and completed by G. Vigfusson. With an introduction and life of Richard Cleasby by G. Webbe Desent. This landmark dictionary of old Icelandic is both authoritative and comprehensive. It offers thousands of illustrative...
Brepols Pub, 2022. — 332 p. — (Studies in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 4). Anyone familiar with the Modern Icelandic language will know that the country's policy is to avoid borrowing lexemes from other languages, and instead to draw on their own vocabulary. This often results in the formation of a word pair, consisting of a loanword and its respective native equivalent, as...
Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press; Medieval Academy of America, 2004. — 562 p. The arrangement of the larger dictionary has on the whole been followed, but a few changes have been introduced. The most important of these are the insertion of genitive compounds in their alphabetical places instead of under the simple word, and the separation of x from œ....
University of Manitoba Press, 2006. — 174 p. North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it.North American Icelandic is the only book about the nature and development of this variety of...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 311 p. — (Islandica 49). The drottkvett was a form of Old Norse skaldic poetry composed to glorify a chieftain's deeds or to lament his death. Kari Ellen Gade explores the structural peculiarities of ninth- and tenth-century drottkvett poetry and suggests a solution to the mystery of the origins of the drottkvett and its eventual demise in the...
De Gruyter, 2009. — 922 p. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 65). Compared to other medieval philologies, the particular nature of the literature of the North, and in particular of Iceland, has always meant that the study of Old Norse languages must be interdisciplinary and rely on methodical variety. This volume, published on the occasion of...
University of Aberdeen, 2014. — 232 p. This thesis analyses my attempt to make engaging English language literary translations of complex Old Norse skaldic poetry, translations which convey significant elements of the form, sound patterns and referential reach of the originals. The primary focus is on the lausavísur (loose, or single verses) of Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson, Earl...
University of Leicester, 2022. — 216 p. This thesis explores the function and significance of written textiles in the Íslendingasögur and a selection of poems from The Poetic Edda. This thesis defines ‘written textiles’ as written representations of textile-making processes, such as spinning, weaving and embroidery, and the material results of those processes, such as clothing....
University of Oxford, 2014. — 274 p. This thesis explores male and female identity in Old Norse and British iterations of the Völsung legend, focusing on the Poetic Edda and Völsunga saga, William Morris's The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, and Melvin Burgess’s Bloodtide and Bloodsong. Using...
University of York, 2017. — 294 p. This thesis reassesses a corpus of Old Norse words which previous scholars claimed to have been loaned from English. It has been over sixty years since the last concerted study of these purported borrowings, and research has not moved much beyond the foundations laid by Absalon Taranger in 1890. This thesis seeks to establish a more plausible...
University of Glasgow, 2014. — 232 p. This thesis examines the vernacular psychology presented in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. It focuses on the concept 'hugr', generally rendered in English as ‘mind, soul, spirit’, and explores the conceptual relationships between emotion, cognition and the body. It argues that despite broad similarities, Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English...
Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag, 1977. — 286 S. — (Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie 6). Die hier vorgelegten Untersuchungen sind dem Gebrauch zweier Pronomina in der altisländischen Prosa gewidmet, nämlich dem des Demonstrativpronomens 'sá' (mit Einschluß von 'sá inn' und dem Pronominaladverb 'þar') sowie dem des nachgestellten 'inn', des sogenannten bestimmten Artikels. Das...
Universitätsverlag Winter, 2001. — 146 S. — (Indogermanische Bibliothek. 1. Reihe: Lehr- und Handbücher). Die Kleine Grammatik des Altisländischen ist als Lehr- und Lernbehelf für den akademischen Unterricht konzipiert. Das Werk vermittelt Grundlagenwissen über Vorstufen, Überlieferung und Phonemsystem des Altisländischen. Das Hauptaugenmerk gilt der Flexionsmorphologie; in...
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2020. — 318 S. — (Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie 66). Die Konzepte 'Schreiben' und 'Lesen' unterschieden sich im Altisländischen in vielen Aspekten. Es gab unterschiedliche Sprachen, Schriftsysteme, Materialien, Textsorten, Stimmen und Rahmen. Die involvierten Personen agierten als Schreiber, Verfasser, Leser, Zuhörer oder Auftraggeber. Dem...
Dover Publications, 2013. — 568 p. Modern Icelandic is closer to the speech patterns of the Middle Ages than any living European language. Thus, a knowledge of Icelandic is highly relevant to the study of English history. This volume, one of the most complete available, will be indispensable to scholars of medieval Icelandic and English culture and history. While it cannot be...
Odense University Press; John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994. — 323 p. — [NOWELE Supplement Series, 11]. The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse attempts to analyse the unaccented vowel system attested in the proto-Norse period, as partially attested in the older runic inscriptions in the elder futhark. Each chapter in turn assesses the evidence for unaccented syllables of a...
Clarendon Press, 1967. — 568 p. While it cannot be said that the study of Icelandic has been neglected in Britain, there can be no doubt that it might with advantage become much more general than it has been. There are several good reasons why it should be so. The Scandinavian influence was the earliest, and one of the strongest, of those outward forces which have gone to the...