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Author: University of St. Andrews. Library
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Total Pages: 646
Release: 1916
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The Illustrated Gaelic Dictionary, Specially Designed for Beginners and for Use in Schools, Including Every Gaelic Word in All the Other Gaelic Dictio

The Illustrated Gaelic Dictionary, Specially Designed for Beginners and for Use in Schools, Including Every Gaelic Word in All the Other Gaelic Dictio
Author: Edward Dwelly
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-26
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781015621329

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The Paganesque and the Tale of Vǫlsi

The Paganesque and the Tale of Vǫlsi
Author: PROFESSOR MERRILL. KAPLAN
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2024-10-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1843847027

Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of Vǫlsi, via the concept of the "paganesque". A family of Norwegian pagans, stubbornly resisting the new Christian religion, worship a diabolically animated preserved horse penis, intoning verses as they pass it from hand to hand until King Olaf the Saint intervenes. This is the matter of the medieval Tale of Vǫlsi. Traditionally, it has been read as evidence of a pre-Christian fertility cult - or simply dismissed as an obscene trifle. This book takes a new approach by developing the concept of the "paganesque" - the air of a religious culture older than and inimical to Christianity. It shows how the Tale of Vǫlsi deploys a range of vernacular genres, from verbal dueling and mythological poetry to folk belief about milk-stealing witches and the reanimated dead, to create the flavor of paganism for a fourteenth-century Icelandic audience: an imagined paganism that has theological stakes as well as satirical bite. Throughout, the study challenges the notion that the horse penis is the key to understanding the narrative. Once the object is removed from the center of interpretation, the artistry and wit of the tale's "Paganesque" come fully into view.

ILLUS GAELIC DICT SPECIALLY DE

ILLUS GAELIC DICT SPECIALLY DE
Author: Edward 1864- Dwelly
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2016-08-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781362946052

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