Iceland and Old Norse Poetry in Two Unpublished Texts by Tomas Tranströmer
This article analyses two unpublished texts (thank-you speeches) of Tomas Tranströmer’s, where the poet describes his experiences about travelling in Iceland and reading Old Norse literature. We show how the poet uses both the Icelandic landscape and Old Norse mythological beings in his poems by giv...
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ftopenedition:oai:books.openedition.org:ledizioni/8005 2023-05-15T16:46:30+02:00 Iceland and Old Norse Poetry in Two Unpublished Texts by Tomas Tranströmer Lombardi, Maria Cristina 2020-01-15 http://books.openedition.org/ledizioni/8005 en eng Ledizioni urn:doi:10.4000/books.ledizioni.8005 http://books.openedition.org/ledizioni/8005 urn:isbn:9788867054121 urn:eisbn:9788855260428 CC BY-SA 3.0 IT info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY-SA cultura lingue nordiche letteratura nordica Scandinavia università università di Milano culture nordic languages nordic literature University University of Milan langues nordiques littérature nordique Scandinavie université université de Milan LIT004250 Literature German Dutch Scandinavian DSB info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart chapter 2020 ftopenedition https://doi.org/10.4000/books.ledizioni.8005 2020-01-19T01:15:19Z This article analyses two unpublished texts (thank-you speeches) of Tomas Tranströmer’s, where the poet describes his experiences about travelling in Iceland and reading Old Norse literature. We show how the poet uses both the Icelandic landscape and Old Norse mythological beings in his poems by giving them new symbolic meanings and values. Specifically, eddic lays, in particular Vǫlundarkviða, seem to have provided him inspiration for both images and metrical structures. Book Part Iceland OpenEdition 207 215 |
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This article analyses two unpublished texts (thank-you speeches) of Tomas Tranströmer’s, where the poet describes his experiences about travelling in Iceland and reading Old Norse literature. We show how the poet uses both the Icelandic landscape and Old Norse mythological beings in his poems by giving them new symbolic meanings and values. Specifically, eddic lays, in particular Vǫlundarkviða, seem to have provided him inspiration for both images and metrical structures. |
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Iceland and Old Norse Poetry in Two Unpublished Texts by Tomas Tranströmer |
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Iceland and Old Norse Poetry in Two Unpublished Texts by Tomas Tranströmer |
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