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Continue reading →: From Germanic Battles of Shields & Swords to Icelandic Pitchforks & CutleryBy N.A.M. Oosterlee, The Medieval Skald, Blog Entry VI As witty as the title might be, in this article, I would like to demonstrate the intriguing alteration of skaldic poetry by twelfth to fourteenth centuries Icelandic poets. Generally, the topic will involve how the late medieval Icelandic people established a…
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Continue reading →: Sir Gawain & His ‘Obvious’ Middle English Marvels
By N.A.M. Oosterlee, The Medieval Skald, Blog Entry V When one refers to the late Medieval English period, there is a high likelihood that many will recall King Arthur and his noblest gathering of the Round Table. Although Arthurian adventures were set in pre-Anglo-Saxon England, the literary franchise received much…
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Continue reading →: The Tales of a Crow, Bloody Raids and Swimming Dragons
By N.A.M. Oosterlee, The Medieval Skald, Blog Entry IV “787 Her nom Beorhtric cyning Offan dohtor Eadburge: ⁊ on his dagum cuomon ærest .iii. scipu, ⁊ þa se gerefa þærto rad, ⁊ hie wolde drifan to þæs cyninges tune þy he nyste hwæt hie wæron; ⁊ hiene mon ofslog; Þæt…
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Continue reading →: The Furtive Existence of a Song for the Dead: ‘Lyke Wake Dirge’
By N.A.M. Oosterlee, The Medieval Skald, Blog Entry III “Lyke Wake Dirge1— This æ nighte, this æ nighte. I shall be grateful for information concerning this “Lyke Wake Dirge”. What is its date? In The Songs of the North, it is said to belong to the North of England. How…
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Continue reading →: Gothic & the Breton Lay: Medievalism
By N.A.M. Oosterlee, The Medieval Skald, Blog Entry II In the conclusion of my first blog entry, I left the implication that I will be examining and testing a contemporary theory of mine in this blog episode. This train of thought first occurred to me while I was reading through…
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Continue reading →: “The Medieval Skald”, Blog Entry I: England’s Twelfth Century, Lyric Poetry, and Medieval Troubadour Marie de France
This first blog entry of “The Medieval Skald” serves as my introduction to the world of Germanic philology. Within its content, I will give a brief notion of the blog’s purpose and provide a small example while diving into Marie de France from late-twelfth-century England.
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