Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda a multifactorial analysis of linguistic features
"This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda, perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This study compares the anonymous Eddic poems to dated skaldic poems with respect to five phenomena that develop diachronically in early Old Norse:...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2022]
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| Series: | Studies in Germanic linguistics,
volume 5 |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Previous scholarship and methodological considerations
- The particle of/um
- Change in negation markers
- Verb placement in subordinate clauses
- Relative clause types
- Metrical criteria for dating
- A multivariate system of dating Eddic poetry.