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View article: Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology II: Rhyme as an Inherited Device of Old Germanic Verse
Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology II: Rhyme as an Inherited Device of Old Germanic Verse Open
This paper is the second in a three-part series on the distinctive type of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter, argued to have emerged through the metricalization of uses of rhyme within a short line found across Old Germanic poetries.…
View article: Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology I: Overview and Argument
Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology I: Overview and Argument Open
This paper is the first in a three-part series or tryptic that argues for the Old Germanic origins of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter. This meter requires rhymes on the stressed syllables of two words within a six-position line, ir…
View article: Echoes of Creation
Echoes of Creation Open
Fractal recursivity describes the fractal-like projection of a pattern and associated evaluative framework on different orders of scope. The concept has been developed for the analysis of semiotic ideologies, but is here applied to mytholo…
View article: Award "Dušan Bandić" for the year 2019
Award "Dušan Bandić" for the year 2019 Open
Award "Dušan Bandić" for the Year 2014 goes to prof. Nikola Pavković for the book Studies and essays in legal ethnology, 2014, Belgrade (Студије и огледи из правне етнологије, 2014, Београд: Српски генеалошки центар)
View article: The girl with finches: a unique post-medieval burial in Tunel Wielki Cave, southern Poland
The girl with finches: a unique post-medieval burial in Tunel Wielki Cave, southern Poland Open
Cave burials are generally absent from historical periods in Europe. Consequently, the discovery of a post-medieval inhumation of a child buried with at least one bird head placed in the mouth in Tunel Wielki Cave (southern Poland) is an e…
View article: Constructing the Folk Cultural Sphere: Agency, Media and Authority
Constructing the Folk Cultural Sphere: Agency, Media and Authority Open
This paper explores the dynamics of agency, media andauthority in the maintenance and construction of the folk cultural sphere– that is, asociety’s generalized perception and understanding of traditional culture. Thephenomenon is expl…
View article: Calling people gods: Theonyms as bynames in medieval Finland and Karelia
Calling people gods: Theonyms as bynames in medieval Finland and Karelia Open
This paper explores the use of theonyms as personal names in medieval and post-medieval Finland and Karelia. The long-term continuity of the naming practice is discussed in terms local ideologies competing with the Church-authorized stance…
View article: Otherworlding: Othering Places and Spaces through Mythologization
Otherworlding: Othering Places and Spaces through Mythologization Open
The concept of otherworld is often conceived as a realm inhabited by supernatural beings or as a fantastic location where the possibilities of imagination are realities. It gets linked to concepts of otherness and the other, but the questi…
View article: The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form? Open
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.). It argues that this verse form emerged as a creolization of the North Germanic allit…
View article: Understanding Embodiment Through Lived Religion: A Look at Vernacular Physiologies in an Old Norse Milieu
Understanding Embodiment Through Lived Religion: A Look at Vernacular Physiologies in an Old Norse Milieu Open
This chapter outlines an approach to how ritual technologies prominent for a person can impact on the development of that person’s body image – i.e. a symbolic and iconic model of what our body is (and is not). Three types of ritual specia…
View article: Myth
Myth Open
Myth has become a fundamental frame of reference for Western thinking. This paper explores the term and category “myth” from the perspective of folklore studies, with concern for the use of myth as a tool in research. The ways in which myt…
View article: Parallelism and Orders of Signification (Parallelism Dynamics I)
Parallelism and Orders of Signification (Parallelism Dynamics I) Open
Parallelism and Orders of Signification (Parallelism Dynamics I) Frog (bio) Discussions1 of parallelism in verbal art have customarily focused on semantic and grammatical parallelism between adjacent verses or equivalent units, "similariti…
View article: Multimedial Parallelism in Ritual Performance (Parallelism Dynamics II)
Multimedial Parallelism in Ritual Performance (Parallelism Dynamics II) Open
Multimedial Parallelism in Ritual Performance (Parallelism Dynamics II) Frog (bio) Ritual performances create situations in which language, movements, spaces, and objects can all be coordinated in powerfully symbolic ways. The turn to perf…
View article: Parallelism in Verbal Art and Performance: An Introduction
Parallelism in Verbal Art and Performance: An Introduction Open
Parallelism in Verbal Art and Performance:An Introduction Frog, in collaboration with Lotte Tarkka Parallelism1 has been considered a fundamental feature of artistic expression. Robert Lowth (1753:180) coined the term parallelismus membror…
View article: Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae III: From Metric-Structural Type to Compositional System
Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae III: From Metric-Structural Type to Compositional System Open
This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised. This is the …