A new approach to the etymology of the Old Norse Name of Kiev — Kønugarðr (the thesis of Elsa Melin on the Name given to Kiev in the Icelandic Sagas, with an Excursus on Kind in Place-Names)

2012 ◽  
pp. 326-338
Author(s):  
Fjodor Uspenskij
Keyword(s):  
Old Norse ◽  
Place Names ◽  
New Approach

A Systematic Re-evaluation of the Sources of Old Norse Astronomy

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 and 2) ◽  
pp. 119-130
Author(s):  
Christian Etheridge
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
First Century ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Tripartite Model ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Secondary Material ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Linguistic Evidence

The field of Old Norse astronomy is in a very fragmented state. There is no primary source that describes all the heavenly bodies and constellations known to the Old Norse culture. Instead the researcher must go to a wide variety of sources, which sometimes only convey snippets of information. These sources range from Eddic poems to tales of early Icelandic astronomers and through to linguistic evidence, archaeology and folklore. The secondary material on these sources is also fragmented, since from the early twentieth century there have only been a few attempts at an overall grand narrative. In this paper a new approach is proposed to collecting and assessing this data. By using multi-disciplinary scholarship and a tripartite model, this paper will show how a new assessment of Old Norse astronomy can be put into practice for the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories: A New Approach and New Chronostratigraphic Records for Three English Rivers

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Pears ◽  
A.G. Brown ◽  
J. Carroll ◽  
P. Toms ◽  
J. Wood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Place Names ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Meandering River ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
High Magnitude ◽  
Fluvial Dynamics ◽  
Human Perceptions

Environmental information from place-names has largely been overlooked by geoarchaeologists and fluvial geomorphologists in analyses of the depositional histories of rivers and floodplains. Here, new flood chronologies for the rivers Teme, Severn, and Wye are presented, modelled from stable river sections excavated at Broadwas, Buildwas, and Rotherwas. These are connected by the Old English term *wæsse, interpreted as ‘land by a meandering river which floods and drains quickly’. The results reveal that, in all three places, flooding during the early medieval period occurred more frequently between AD 350–700 than between AD 700–1100, but that over time each river's flooding regime became more complex including high magnitude single events. In the sampled locations, the fluvial dynamics of localized flood events had much in common, and almost certainly differed in nature from other sections of their rivers, refining our understanding of the precise nature of flooding which their names sought to communicate. This study shows how the toponymic record can be helpful in the long-term reconstruction of historic river activity and for our understanding of past human perceptions of riverine environments.

Note: Old-Norse place names II

Peritia ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 187-187
Author(s):  
Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Keyword(s):  
Old Norse ◽  
Place Names

scholarly journals Hierophanies in the Vinland Sagas: Images of a New World

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 and 2) ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
Aidan Foster
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
First Century ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Tripartite Model ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Secondary Material ◽  
Linguistic Evidence

The field of Old Norse astronomy is in a very fragmented state. There is no primary source that describes all the heavenly bodies and constellations known to the Old Norse culture. Instead the researcher must go to a wide variety of sources, which sometimes only convey snippets of information. These sources range from Eddic poems to tales of early Icelandic astronomers and through to linguistic evidence, archaeology and folklore. The secondary material on these sources is also fragmented, since from the early twentieth century there have only been a few attempts at an overall grand narrative. In this paper a new approach is proposed to collecting and assessing this data. By using multi-disciplinary scholarship and a tripartite model, this paper will show how a new assessment of Old Norse astronomy can be put into practice for the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Valhall and Helgafell: syncretistic traits of the Old Norse religion

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 66-99
Author(s):  
Odd Nordland
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Population ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Viking Age ◽  
Place Names ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
The World

The religion of the Viking age, the pre-Christian faith,  presents itself as a syncretism, It is quite peculiarly evident from the tradition surrounding the origin of the gods in Åsgard. The gods behind the palisade of this mythological dwelling place were of two kinds, the result of an exchange of hostages after war between the æsir and the vanir. From the flock of vanir came the two fertility-gods: Njgrbr and Freyr to dwell in Åsgard and be accepted there on equal terms with the other gods around the "allfather", Othin. This quite remarkable information, concerning the syncretism of the eddic religion, is generally interpreted as a historic reminiscence of a contrast between a fertility religion, and a more aristocratic and warlike religion attached to the cult of Othin. The fertility religion then is often conceived of as old traits belonging to the indigenous population of Scandinavia, while the Othin-cult as something which was introduced by the same innovations that brought the Indo-European boat-axe people to our part of the world. We know the result of the process that created the heathen religion which reigned in our countries at the time Christianity was introduced here, but we are highly bewildered when faced with the task of describing the syncretistic process itself, and the religions that were a part of it. This is true despite our abundant material of mythological poetry, legends and 13th century information. This too, despite our extremely favorable situation of being in possession of the exiting amount of theoforic place-names.

scholarly journals Einige Personennamen und Götternamen in schwedischen Ortsnamen

1990 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 441-457
Author(s):  
Sven Benson
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Investigation ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Place Names ◽  
First Millennium

This article aims at shedding light on the religious conditions of Sweden during the first millennium CE, especially the centuries during which Old Norse religious practices were gradually paralleled and replaced by Christian customs, by analyzing names of persons and gods that are included in places names deriving from this era. The statistical investigation shows that the names of the most common Nordic gods – Oden, Tor, Frö and Fröja – are significantly more common as parts of place names than the most common male names of that time: Anders, Karl, Erik, Bengt and Jon.

scholarly journals Cultural Dominant in National Economy Management: Yoficating Guidance Documents and Publications as the Dictates of the Present Time.

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-106
Author(s):  
G. Machkhelyan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Technological Breakthrough ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Guidance Documents ◽  
Scientific Terms ◽  
Technical Terms

Purpose. Correct using scientific and technical terms, Russian personal and place names at all levels of management of socioeconomic development of the country.Object. Scientific terms, antroponyms and toponyms in contemporary Russian and English and national economy management.Subject. Yoficating written or printed words of guidance documents and publications. Basic Aspects of the Article. The author stresses the need of taking into account a new approach to the culture of speech, spelling scientific and technical terms, antroponyms and toponyms in guidance documents and publications in Russian and English, yoficating words as a factor of technological breakthrough and economic growth at the present time, in particular.

scholarly journals The Question of Ancient Scandinavian Cultic Buildings: with Particular Reference to Old Norse hof

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
OLOF SUNDQVIST
Keyword(s):  
General Concept ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Written Sources

The article focuses on the question of ancient Scandinavian cultic buildings, with particular reference to the concept Old Norse hof. I survey the semantics of this term in written sources, in poetic traditions, in the Sagas of the Icelanders and in place names. My hypothesis is that the term does not refer to a static phenomenon, but rather its meaning varies across different sources and contexts. It is therefore often difficult to apply it as a general concept, or to connect it with a specific type of archaeological find or structure, as has occasionally been the case in the archaeology of religion.

scholarly journals Old Norse and Old English Language Contact: Scandinavian Legal Terminology in Anglo-Saxon Laws

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Viola Miglio
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
English Language ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Anglo Saxon

The Scandinavian occupation of wide territories in the British Islands from about 900 CE onwards has left a number of vestiges both in place-names, in the pronunciation and lexicon of northern dialects, especially Scottish, as well as loanwords in standard English, some of which are remarkably common, ugly, to take and window to name but three.

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