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* '''Author''': Fidjestøl, Bjarne | * '''Author''': Fidjestøl, Bjarne | ||
* '''Title''': Skaldic poetry and the conversion. With some reflections on literary form as a source of historical information | * '''Title''': Skaldic poetry and the conversion. With some reflections on literary form as a source of historical information | ||
* '''Published in''': ''Selected Papers | * '''Published in''': ''Selected Papers'' | ||
* '''Editors''': Odd Einar Haugen and Else Mundal | |||
* '''Series''': The Viking Collection 9 | |||
* '''Place, Publisher''': Odense: Odense University Press | * '''Place, Publisher''': Odense: Odense University Press | ||
* '''Year''': 1997 | * '''Year''': 1997 | ||
Revision as of 00:39, 3 March 2012
- Author: Fidjestøl, Bjarne
- Title: Skaldic poetry and the conversion. With some reflections on literary form as a source of historical information
- Published in: Selected Papers
- Editors: Odd Einar Haugen and Else Mundal
- Series: The Viking Collection 9
- Place, Publisher: Odense: Odense University Press
- Year: 1997
- Pages: 133-50
- E-text:
- Reference: Fidjestøl, Bjarne. "Skaldic poetry and the conversion. With some reflections on literary form as a source of historical information." Transl. Peter Foote. Selected Papers. Eds. Odd Einar Haugen and Else Mundal. The Viking Collection 9. Odense: Odense University Press, 1997, pp. 133–50.
- Key words: history, religion, poetry (sagnfræði, trúarbrögð, kveðskapur)
Annotation
A discussion of the degrees of religiosity of skaldic poetry connected with Haraldur Fine-Hair and his descendants.
Lýsing
Umræða um trúarleg áhrif í dróttkvæðum sem tengjast Haraldi hárfagra og afkomendum hans.
See also
References
Chapter 62: Vestr fór eg: Höfuðlausn is an example of a poem (concerning Eiríkr blóðøx) with “no religious elements except in kennings and figures of speech” (p. 150).
Links
- Written by: Jane Appleton
- Icelandic translation: Jón Karl Helgason
