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A journal that presents scholarly coverage of medieval and modern languages of Scandinavia for the academic audience.

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Adjusting judgments of Gauta pattr's forest family.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... GAUTREKS SAGA, a fornaldarsaga or "saga of ancient times" written in Iceland around the turn of the fourteenth century, has been the object of many and varied analyses. One element of the saga that has occasioned little disagreement among scholars, however, is the forest family featured in...

The big splash: end-rhyme and innovation in medieval Scandinavian poetics.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... WHEN THE MATIERE DE BRETAGNE began to appear in Old Norse translation during the reign of King Hakon Hakonarsson of Norway (d. 1262), the Old French sources underwent a process of literary as well as stylistic transformation. Among the sagas attributed to Hakon's patronage are Tristrams saga...

The Little Mermaid: icon and disneyfication.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... AS AN ICON IN MASS CULTURE, the Little Mermaid has become the official image of Denmark in general, and of its capital, Copenhagen, in particular. Its iconicity is intimately tied to two sources: Edvard Eriksen's famous bronze statue erected on the Copenhagen waterfront in 1913 and Hans...

"He strongly envied Sherlock Holmes. but he decided not to take him to his model": a discursive approach to the "self" in an early self-reflexive finnish detective novel.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION: EXPLORING THE EXPLICIT SELF-REFLEXIVITY OF THE FINNISH DETECTIVE NOVEL IN THE 1910s AND 1920s DETECTIVE NOVELS became a flourishing genre in Finland at the I beginning of the twentieth century. Initially mainly English and American detective stories were translated, and then...

Skandinavische Literaturgeschichte.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Skandinavische Literaturgeschichte. Ed. Jurg Glauser. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2006. The title Skandivavische Literaturgeschichte, though perhaps seemingly straightforward and unambiguous, has many challenging and methodologically complex issues lurking just beneath the surface. Among the...

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