Mythical-Heroic Sagas
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From the Preface: "In the modern world artistic creativity necessarily implies originality; as a rule, we have great difficulty assessing the works of an age in which such notions were for the most part still quite distant. The heroic... more
A través de siete apartados se analiza la cronología de Star Wars, el contexto histórico-social que la determina y cómo se evidencia en la saga. También por qué se puede considerar Star Wars como un mito moderno y cómo refleja el viaje... more
In recent scholarship, the Icelandic fornaldarsögur – legendary, “mythic-heroic” sagas – have typically been regarded as a locus for literary fiction in medieval Iceland, owing in part to their genetic and generic relation to romance... more
Eine Hausarbeit, die im Rahmen des Seminars "Wikinger, Seekönige, Berserker: Die Fornaldarsögur" (Leitung: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Simek) verfasst wurde. (Bewertung: 1,0) ---------- Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der Darstellungsweise der... more
Some recent studies concerning early medieval Europe have suggested that Scandinavia and Francia represented two ideological poles with which other populations within the Germanic world might have intended to align themselves. While such... more
This article argues that both This World and the Other World are presented as real places in the fornaldarsögur and examines how landscape is used to facilitate the narrative construction of different worlds and to indicate how, when and... more
RESUMEN: El Cantar de mio Cid, una de las principales obras del canon literario español, es también una de las más importantes en el ámbito de la poesía épica medieval por sus valores estéticos, su influencia histórica y su fundamental... more
An article about Ketils saga hængs, Gríms saga loðinkinna, Örvar-Odds saga and Áns saga bogsveigis and their connections to one another in light of oral theory. It also argues that Áns saga bogsveigis is a genuine member of the group of... more
Hrolfs saga kraka owes its popularity to its status as an analog of Beowulf. This article attempts first to consider the saga for itself, noting its flaws and loose ends; and also to list its connections with Scandinavian legend, making... more
In my reading of sections of this book, Chaim (Hayyim) Vital’s superior soul-type, (which he refers to as the neshomah hadasha or neshoma elyonah) seems similar to the tragic hero of the Hellenic and Elizabethan theater. Both the tragic... more
There are certain invariants of heroic poetry, elements that define it essentially: the theme – a narrative about “extraordinary deeds”, famous, adventurous topics, in the style of “traditional heroic mythology” (Marino) – and the... more
The subject of the study is the transformation of humans into wolves in medieval chivalric romances, rhymed tales (lais), educational works, Norse sagas, Russian literature and Serbian folk songs. The medieval idea of a werewolf was... more
Granskning/book review: Agneta Ney, Bland ormar och drakar. Hjältemyt och manligt ideal i berättartraditioner om Sigurd Fafnesbane, 360 s., ill., Nordic Academic Press, Lund 2017.
"Vipasank" was the first preserved Armenian epic which’s some poetic fragments were recorded as early as the 5th century, in the "Armenian History" by Movsēs Xorenac‛i. In most cases, Khorenatsi extracted these fragments from various... more
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This paper discusses the relationships between dwarfs and humans in the sagas, focusing on Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana, Þorsteins þáttr bæjarmagns and Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar. It is argued that dwarfs’ family life is... more
Indoeuropean poetic formulae "Unfading Glory" in the Ossetian Nartiada (Nart Sagas). In this article I try to identify traces of the archaic Indoeuropean poetic formulae "Unfading Glory" in the Ossetic epic poetry. These relicts are... more
Carl Christian Rafn is generally stated to be the founder of the generic designation “fornaldarsögur” (legendary sagas, sagas of ancient times), having collected together the known corpus in his 1829–30 edition “Fornaldar sögur... more
The paper seeks to propose the adoption of an alternative metaphor to that of the “journey”, currently the most pervasive characterisation for the student’s experience of doctoral education. The paper adopts a conceptual and rhetorical... more
Conference paper offering a series of complementary theoretical perspectives on the motif of breaking into a burial mound known from the Old Norse literature. This motif is surprisingly common and it usually follows a specific structure.... more
This work focuses on the character of Hector, son of the king of Troy Priam, and his iconographical traduction in Athenian figurated pottery. Even if the Trojan warrior is a marginal figure in 6 th and 5 th centuries BC in Greece, his... more
O curso abordará questões teórico-metodológicas na compreensão do fenômeno mágico e na relação entre mito e literatura, tendo como fontes primárias algumas obras do corpus literário medieval. Tendo como principal referencial teórico a... more
S. Lebouteiller, « Les "boucliers de paix" et les "boucliers de guerre" dans la littérature norroise : invention littéraire ou réalité matérielle ? », Tabularia « Études », nº 16, 2016, p. 279-304.... more
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Celem artykułu jest próba odpowiedzi na pytanie o przyczyny popularności postaci Wiedźmina. Argumentuję, że interpretacja, wedle której Wiedźmin jest ułomnym supermanem, jest niewystarczająca. Wskazuję, że Wiedźmin posiada cechy Herosa,... more