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Article: Judith Jesch. Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: the Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse.(Book Review)
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- Scandinavian Studies
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- September 22, 2003
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Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell v, 2001. Pp. xiv + 330, 56 plates.
Precisely summarized in its title, this book is a closely delimited study of the lexis of Old Norse-Icelandic as deployed in two highly conventional but distinctive and very different media within a timeframe when both public poetry and monumental inscription were valued art forms, even commemorative art forms. Poetry and epigraphy do not, of course, offer a perfect overlap on many counts: the lexical extravagance of skaldic verse, for example, contrasts with the laconism of the rune stones, but the two forms of vernacular record are our sole sources for the early period under study. Although the ...