Gems of Germanic philology
Konrad RosenbergInsights from my studies in Old Germanic texts.
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Sigrdrífumál 3–4: an authentic pagan prayer?
Roman statue of a praying German. CC BY 3.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bronze_figure_of_a_German_Biblioth%C3%A8que_Nationale.jpg
The justifiably famous stanzas to be discussed in this post are found in the Eddic “poem” Sigrdr...
Four words in Hildebrandslied, Heliand, and the Old Saxon Genesis
Note: In this article, Saxon is used to refer exclusively to the people and language of Old Saxony, not to the Anglo-Saxons.
At its core this post consists of two observations regarding the use of four words in the three most important all...
Mutual intelligibility at the Battle of Maldon
The Battle of Maldon took place on August 10th or 11th1 991, when an army of Anglo-Saxons (and settled Danes? see below) fought a large party of Scandinavian pirates or wikings. The English suffered crushing defeat. Their leader, Byrhtnoth,...
Some pre-Christian Norse oaths
Throughout the Old Northern prose sources, especially those from Iceland, we find scattered many small anecdotes of the pre-Christian Cult. These are very important for our understanding of a large part of the cultural and religious history...
The Lay of Wayland
Introduction
The dramatic Old Norse narrative poem Vǫlundarkviða (“Lay of Wayland”) is only found in the 13th century Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda, but may by its language and style be dated to the 10th century. The basic story it con...
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