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  • ...Runic Wisdom in "Njal's Saga and Nordic Mythology: Roots of an Oral Legal Tradition in Northern Europe." tradition of Northern Europe. He compares the magic combination of runes to legal for ...
    2 KB (385 words) - 16:27, 24 August 2016
  • * '''Title''': Íslendingadrápa and Oral Tradition * '''Reference''': Jónas Kristjánsson. "Íslendingadrápa and Oral Tradition." ''Gripla'' 1 (1975): 76–92. ...
    2 KB (315 words) - 09:17, 29 August 2016
  • * '''Published in''': ''Oral tradition'' 13 ...e''': Davis, Craig Robert. "Cultural assimilation in "Njáls saga"." ''Oral tradition'' 13 (1998), pp. 435-455 ...
    1 KB (213 words) - 13:53, 29 August 2016
  • * '''Key words''': poetry, oral tradition, sources (kveðskapur, munnleg hefð, heimildir) ...tten and the oral sources in skaldic poems. By examining how two different oral variants of Höfuðlausn affect the written sources, evidently producing tw ...
    2 KB (340 words) - 10:42, 12 February 2016
  • * '''Title''': Oral Allusion in Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar: A Computer-Aided Approach * '''Reference''': Bell, L. Michael. "Oral Allusion in Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar: A Computer-Aided Approach." ''Ar ...
    3 KB (399 words) - 11:13, 24 August 2016
  • ...able source, notwithstanding the fact that the author might have relied on oral or written sources. ...
    3 KB (450 words) - 14:56, 9 June 2016
  • * '''Key words''': social reality, oral tradition, literacy (ritöld, munnleg hefð, samfélagsmynd) ...literacy (i.e., connecting power to written texts). Waugh argues that the tradition is at its heart a competitive one and that the king "steals" acts of praise ...
    3 KB (506 words) - 23:24, 4 March 2012
  • ...ring at several points that indicates a possible “literate residue” in his oral poetry. Í eldri grein, "Eddic Poetry as Oral Poetry" frá 1983, rannsakaði Harris það hvort nota mætti kenningar um ...
    4 KB (691 words) - 17:48, 8 March 2012
  • ...''Gelimer's Lament'' can not be used as an evidence for a genuine Germanic tradition since the text is rhetorically amplified and originates from a Mediterranea ...
    2 KB (330 words) - 14:08, 26 August 2016
  • ...y examining how the structures of sagas themselves seem to imitate an oral tradition. His next step is analyzing how the style of sagas accomplishes that imitat ...
    3 KB (389 words) - 15:11, 4 June 2019
  • ...that the episode is based on first-hand accounts surviving within an oral tradition. Critics who believe that the episode contains factual historical elements ...
    2 KB (355 words) - 16:16, 12 December 2016
  • .... 66) between Njáls saga and Beowulf, drawn intentionally from shared oral tradition to set up Þorkell as a hero of the archetypal bear’s son narrative. Para ...
    3 KB (392 words) - 13:48, 29 August 2016
  • ...ng the marks of well-composed fiction, blending history and myth with oral tradition. Looks at the nature of feud in the saga in relation to the typical progres ...
    3 KB (395 words) - 14:55, 31 August 2016
  • In his article, Johan Hovstad, discusses the influence of oral tradition on ''Egils saga'', and questions if the reader can trust the saga as a hist ...
    3 KB (397 words) - 15:01, 25 April 2017
  • that a scholastic focus on oral tradition and the influence of folklore has completely missed the ...
    3 KB (455 words) - 14:04, 26 August 2016
  • ...' (1760), i.e., the Ossianic poems, which Macpherson claimed were based on oral materials. In his editing practices and presentation of the texts, Percy em ...
    3 KB (413 words) - 10:01, 29 August 2016
  • ...believes that because the original writer of Egil's Saga followed an oral tradition, which he believed implicitly, he did not tell the story in a linear fashio ...
    3 KB (423 words) - 15:54, 26 August 2016
  • ...en to Egill by king Athelstan, their journey through the saga and the oral tradition surrounding the later attempts to find them. Jón Grunnvíkingur mentions t ...
    3 KB (456 words) - 11:46, 20 July 2016
  • ...l and legal norms in ‘Saga Iceland’. Specifically, he argues that the oral tradition on which the sagas were based must have been preserved well enough to retai ...
    4 KB (625 words) - 12:06, 5 June 2019
  • ...that the episode is based on first-hand accounts surviving within an oral tradition. Critics who believe that the episode contains factual historical elements ...t Icelandic accounts of Vinheidr derive ultimately from a medieval Danelaw tradition and we may be dealing here with yet another example of the English origin o ...
    27 KB (5,034 words) - 09:42, 9 November 2017
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