Skaldic Poetry

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-196
Author(s):  
Roberta Frank
Keyword(s):  
Skaldic Poetry

scholarly journals SOBRE MATADORES DE DRAGÕES: ALUSÕES POÉTICAS AO HEROI SIGURÐR FÁFNISBANI E AO ARCANJO MIGUEL NA POESIA ESCANDINAVA DO SÉCULO XI * ON DRAGON SLAYERS: POETIC ALLUSIONS ABOUT THE HERO SIGURÐR FÁFNISBANI AND MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL IN SKALDIC POETRY (XIth CENTURY)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Renan Marques Birro
Keyword(s):  
Audience Reception ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Skaldic Poetry ◽  
Christian Influence

Resumo: Este artículo versa sobre diferentes tradições de matadores de dragões na Escandinávia medieval, a saber, Sigurðr Fáfnisbani e são Miguel arcanjo. A partir das transformações religiosas do período, das adequações poéticas ao novo credo e conforme a audiência, os skáld teciam suas composições, no intuito de permanecer com os favores da aristocracia escandinava. É verossímil, portanto, que a influência cristã tenha contribuído para moldar algumas composições poéticas semilegendárias e mitológicas desde a etapa de criação. É verossímil, portanto, que a influência cristã era sentida na composição de poemas semilegendários e mitológicos em língua vernacular. Palavras-chave: Sigurðr; Miguel; Poesia Escáldica; Escandinávia Medieval. Abstract: This article explores two traditions on dragon slayers in Medieval Scandinavia, i.e., Sigurðr Fáfnisbani and saint Michael theArchangel. Considering the religious transformations at that time, the poetical changes with the introduction of a new faith, and the audience reception, the skáld “wove” their compositions to maintain their favorable positions among the scandinavian aristocracy. Possibly the christian influence was present since the composition of semi legendary and mythological poems in vernacular language. Keywords: Sigurðr; Michael; Skaldic Poetry; MedievalScandinavia. 

No need for mead

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-154
Author(s):  
Jonas Wellendorf
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Formal Study ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Skaldic Poetry ◽  
The Future ◽  
Poetic Composition

This paper will see Bjarni Kolbeinsson as a representative of the new kind of skaldic poetry that had developed around the turn of the thirteenth century. By then, formal skaldic poetry had become an art form cultivated by men who had received schooling and clerical ordination. Skalds such as Bjarni had turned their attention from the praise of kings of the present or the near past towards subjects of the more distant past and religious themes. In Jómsvíkingadrápa, Bjarni brushed aside the Odinic mead hailed by former skalds and preferred to apply techniques of poetic composition that he had learned through the formal study of Latin poetry. A tongue-in-cheek rejection of the traditional exordial topoi and a sensibility for love poetry allowed him to compose a poem that not only rejected the past but also pointed towards the future.

Poetry in Fornaldarsögur, Margaret Clunies Ross, ed., 2 parts. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages, 8. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017, 1076 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 382-382
Author(s):  
William Sayers
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Online Version ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Current Technology ◽  
General Editor ◽  
International Team ◽  
Skaldic Poetry ◽  
The Many

The Skaldic Editing Project, as it was familiarly called until print production began in 2007, is the most comprehensive editorial undertaking in medieval Scandinavian studies in many decades. Volume 8, here under review, is the fifth to see publication in the planned series of nine, and is devoted to skaldic verse (broadly understood) incorporated in various ways in the Old Norse-Icelandic tales of olden times (Fornaldarsögur). The general editor of the series, Margaret Clunies Ross (who has also edited this volume as well as the stanzas from several such sagas) has assembled an international team of 12 scholars, responsible for the editing and translation of 23 sets of stanzas and, as an addendum, the somewhat anomalous Skaufhala bálkr, a satirical poem about an old fox. An online version of the project, with the many enhancement available through current technology, is also in progress.

The Mead of Poetry: Old Norse Poetry as a Mind-Altering Substance

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Hannah Burrows
Keyword(s):  
Substance P ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Other Minds ◽  
Skaldic Poetry ◽  
The World ◽  
Norse Myth ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Over Time

This chapter examines the Old Norse myth of the mead of poetry in light of the distributed cognition hypothesis. It explains how Norse skaldic poetry scaffolds various cognitive processes, and then argues that the myth of the poetic mead, which sees poetry as an alcoholic substance, is exploited by Old Norse poets to understand and describe poetry’s effect on the mind. Examples are given that suggest poets saw poetry as ‘mind altering’ in ways that resonate with certain aspects of the distributed cognition hypothesis: in particular, that poetry is cognition-enabling through feedback-loop processes; that the mind can be extended into the world and over time in poetry; that cognition can be shared and/or furthered by engaging with other minds; that the body plays a non-trivial role; and that poetry performs mental and affective work in the world.

Cosmology and Skaldic Poetry

2012 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Ross ◽  
Gade
Keyword(s):  
Skaldic Poetry
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