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Article: Personnamn i nordiska och andra germanska fornsprak.
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- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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The proceedings of NORNA symposia are always interesting to read, for the volumes are compact, the speakers discuss their recent investigations, rather than rehash general truths, as is the case with so many conferences, and the exchange of opinions included by the editors reproduces the militant atmosphere of the gatherings. The NORNA eighteenth symposium has the familiar features of its predecessors. It is devoted to proper names in the old Germanic, mainly Scandinavian, languages. The symposium, as we are informed (4), "attracted 44 participants from Denmark, Finland, Germany, the netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Thirteen papers were read and each was followed by a ...
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Article: Pegn and drengr in the Viking Age.
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December 22, 2006 ;
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... ... of sources and contexts, namely runic inscriptions, poetry, sagas, and legal texts ... that the term drengr in East Norse runic inscriptions as well as in Viking-Age skaldic ... meaning "man" Second, that in both runic inscriptions and skaldic poetry, the term pegn ...
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