Sökning: "icelandic tales"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden icelandic tales.

1. 1. Urd, Verdandi och Skuld: En studie om vikingarnas trosuppfattningar kring ödet såsom de nedskrevs på 1200-talet.

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Historia

   Författare :André Kvist; [2012]
   Nyckelord :Edda; isländska sagor; sejd; Oden; ödet; spådomar; Viking; nornor; Snorre Sturlasson; History and Archaeology;

   Sammanfattning : The social significance of destiny in old Icelandic sagas and eddas from the thirteenth century is examined in this paper. I ask the question how destiny is explained and in what shape it is described, what it means to the characters in the sagas and how they handle the predictions of their future. LÄS MER

3. 2. Gemensamma strukturer i isländska sagor

   Magister-uppsats, Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

   Författare :Stefan Hansson; [2012]
   Nyckelord :analysis; components; constants; Edda; folktale; functions; icelandic tales; litterature; morphology; Njals Saga; structure; tale; variables; Vladimir Propp;

   Sammanfattning : This paper is a morphological structure-analysis of icelandic tales to determine their common and distinguishable components in relation to one another and to the russian folktale with Vladimir Propp’s book Morphology of the Folktale (1968) as theoretical basis. The paper looks at the Poetic Edda and Njals saga and the functions of the actions for each other and for the story as a whole. LÄS MER