Review of Chruszczewski (2006): Cultural Patterns in Discursive Practices of Scandinavian Speech Communities in the Viking Age. On the Basis of Runic Inscriptions of North-Central Jutland

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-169
Author(s):  
Heimir Pálsson
2019 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-560
Author(s):  
Nikolas Gunn

Abstract A recent resurgence of interest in Old Norse linguistic borrowings in Old English has greatly expanded our knowledge of the contact situation between these two speech communities in the early medieval period and beyond. However, there are a significant number of words that have been considered borrowings in the “other” direction, i. e. from Old English to Old Norse, which have not attracted the same amount of attention in current scholarship. Much of this material requires reassessment and this paper provides a case study of two parallel compound formations in both languages – OE bærsynnig [mann]/ON bersynðugr [maðr] (‘one who is openly sinful; publican’), and OE healsbōc/ON hálsbók (‘phylactery, amulet’, lit. ‘neck-book’) – that have traditionally been considered loan translations from Old English to Old Norse with little evidence other than their formation from cognate elements. In the absence of clear-cut linguistic criteria for identifying loan translations between these two closely related languages, this paper draws on a range of literary evidence to argue for a strong likelihood of a relationship between the two compounds. Both words offer important evidence for biblical translation practices, and contribute to our knowledge about the Christianisation of Norse speaking peoples and Anglo-Norse language contact in Viking Age England.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3, jul.-dez.) ◽  
pp. 161-195
Author(s):  
Kary Emanuelle Reis Coimbra ◽  
Maria Dione Carvalho de Morais

A expansão de coletivos/coletivas juvenis na cidade de Teresina, Piauí, nos anos 2010, levou-nos a indagar sobre sua presença no ciberespaço por meio de mídias sociais e sobre suas pautas de ação política e campos de atuação. Partindo de um levantamento nas mídias sociais Facebook e Instagram, identificamos 27 páginas de coletivos/coletivas, cujas postagens escritas e imagéticas tomamos, metodologicamente em uma abordagem qualitativa de teor interpretativo, como práticas discursivas. Como resultados, constatamos a autodenominação coletivo/coletiva pela quase totalidade dos agrupamentos; o uso de ambas as mídias ou de apenas uma delas; a diversidade de campos de atuação/pautas e suas convergências; os marcadores identitários; e os objetivos, explícitos ou implícitos, de atuação voltada à crítica social, à desconstrução/reconstrução de padrões socioculturais e a projetos emancipatórios. Palavras-chave: Coletivos e coletivas em Teresina; juventudes; práticas discursivas; mídias sociais. Abstract The expansion of youth collectives in the city of Teresina, Piauí, throughout the decade of 2010, led us to question their presence in cyberspace through social media and about their political action agendas and areas of activity. Based on a survey on Facebook and Instagram, we identified 27 pages of Collectives, in which the written and image posts were taken, methodologically in a qualitative approach with an interpretive content, as discursive practices. As result, we found the self-denomination “Collective” by almost all groups; the use of both social media or just one of them; the diversity of areas of activity/themes and their convergences; identity markers; and explicit or implicit objectives of performance-focused on social criticism, deconstruction/reconstruction of socio-cultural patterns and emancipatory projects. Keywords: Collectives in Teresina; youth; discursive practices; social media.   Resumen La expansión de los Colectivos/Colectivas juveniles en la ciudad de Teresina, Piauí, en los años 2010, nos llevó a indagar sobre su presencia en el ciberespacio a través de las redes sociales, y sobre sus líneas de actuación política y campos de actuación. A partir de una encuesta en las redes sociales Facebook e Instagram, identificamos 27 páginas de Colectivos/Colectivas, cuyas publicaciones de textos escritos e de imágenes tomamos, metodológicamente, en un enfoque cualitativo, con un contenido interpretativo, como prácticas discursivas. Como resultado, encontramos la autodenominación Colectivo/Colectiva por casi todos los grupos; el uso de ambas las redes o solo una de ellas; la diversidad de campos de acción/ lineamientos y sus convergencias; marcadores de identidad; y objetivos, explícitos o implícitos, de acción dirigidos a la crítica social, a deconstrucción/reconstrucción de patrones socioculturales y a proyectos emancipatorios. Palabras clave: Colectivos y colectivas en Teresina; juventudes; prácticas discursivas; redes sociales.


Author(s):  
Alla Kurzenkova ◽  

The main aim of the article is to investigate the text of the Pilgård’s runestone concerning the place name which are connected with Ukrainian landscape, and at the same time, understanding the role of Berezan’ Island in the trade communication is shaped by researching its rune inscription. The main purpose of research is to understand how fellows-in-trade in the Viking Age have perceived places and how they reflected their mental map in the inscriptions of runestones. The content analysis method became the principal idea of the research methodology. The research was carried out in two stages. The first stage involved the grouping of conceptual components into logical categories recorded in the runic inscriptions. The second stage involved examining the text on different contextual levels. The scientific novelty of the article is to investigate the geography information of runestones as the mental maps, which were connected with long-distance trade networks on the Eastern way, combining knowledge of travel routes extended to Ukrainian landscape, and how traders encountered and experienced it. The runestones show us something what the people have been pondering about before. The text on the stones are perceived as a common place for the development of the cultural experience, it attracts attention to the life of people and the cultural environment that made impact on the stone and where it was formed due to the trade activity of human beings. Understanding the scale of Scandinavian activities beyond the island Berezan' fosters the increasingly necessary knowledge to explain such term as felagi that is found on runestone. The inscriptions on runestones were fused the physical, humans and the cultural landscape into the mental map, which was comprehensible to a certain group of the Swedish fellows-in-trade. The Pilgårds and the Berezan’ runestones structured information about Ukrainian landscape and gave the evaluation of the purpose of a place.


2021 ◽  
pp. 105-121
Author(s):  
Stefan Brink

Runes are the indigenous writing system in Viking-Age Scandinavia, and therefore a very important source for this, otherwise, oral society. There are around 3,000 runic inscriptions, but the mentioning of thralls are extremely rare. Only a handful examples can be discussed, such as the words bryti and fostri/fostra, and a couple concerning freed slaves, løysar. This should not be surprising, since there probably was no cause for commemorating a slave in a runic inscription.


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