Ah, I need to start finding out about these special days in advance! Today is World Poetry Day. Yay for poetry! I have all sorts of things I’d love to post (with translations, of course)– Erik Gustav Geijer‘s “Vikingen” (= The Viking), Egill Skallagrímsson‘s “Sonatorrek“, and others– but I’m short on sleep and behind on [...]
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Runic Love Poetry for World Poetry Day
Posted in Book Reviews and Recommendations, Old Norse Philology, Philology, Poetry, Scandinavian Studies, Teaching on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What is a Viking?
Posted in Comics and Drawings, Philology, Scandinavian Studies on August 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’m busy revising an old conference paper on the terms víkingr and víking. These are the terms from which our word “Viking” comes (yes, obvious, sorry), but the semantics of the Viking have not been completely stable through the centuries. Since I am spending all my time reading up on the subject, I may as [...]
