Sökning: "The Poetic Edda"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden The Poetic Edda.
1. Den Queera Eddan : En undersökning av queera läckage i Den poetiska Eddan
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaperSammanfattning : This essay analyses the songs from Den poetiska Eddan (The Poetic Edda) with a queer perspective through a queer reading. I use Tiina Rosenberg’s concept of queer leakage along with historical contextualization to figure out how to approach an older text through a modern perspective. LÄS MER
2. Valkyrior och sköldmöer : Kön och genus i fornnordisk mytologi
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV); Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)Sammanfattning : Abstrakt This essay is about how I investigated the valkyries and shieldmaidens gender in Old Norse mythology. The starting point of investigating valkyries, from a gender perspective, lies within that "gender", socially, can be reconstructed from societies ideologies and norms, referring to present time discussions. LÄS MER
3. Sublime Transactions. The Gestures of Poetry and Criticism with Anne Carson, the Scholar-Poet
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaSammanfattning : The 20th century, as well as the 21st, is ripe with hermeneutic anxiety concerning the survival of the object of interpretation and the right way to study literature. In this thesis, the Canadian scholar-poet Anne Carson is studied as a framework to an understanding of how poetry and literary criticism – the event of hermeneutics – co-occur, converge, and diverge. LÄS MER
4. Fornnordisk mytologi i dataspel : En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av God of War’s gestaltning av fornnordisk mytologi
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/ReligionsvetenskapSammanfattning : This thesis analyses how norse mythology is being used in modern videogames. This is done via a qualitative content analysis using grounded theory of the game God of War from 2018 by Santa Monica Studios, and comparing the games contents with literature regarding Norse mythology, the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, as well as studies done on similar games in fields closely related to the subject. LÄS MER
5. Sigurds död och Gjukungarnas undergång : En innehållsanalytisk studie av Överhogdalsbonad I a och b
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/ArkeologiSammanfattning : The late Viking age weaves of Överhogdal in Härjedalen, North central Sweden, the further place of origin unknown, C14-dated to AD 1040-1170 consist of three narrative and one decorative specimen. The current study interprets weave I a and b by combining it with the Völsunga saga from the 13th century as well as with the poetic Edda and Snorre Sturlasson’s Edda and the Nibelungen song finding close relations between the weave motif and different versions of the Sigurd/Sigfried narration on some ten occasions. LÄS MER
