Themes of gospel and nativity in Icelandic biblical paraphrase

• Published in: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature
• Main Author: Ogurechnikova, Nataliia L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: St Petersburg State University 2022
• Subjects: Icelandic biblical paraphrase; Marian Bibles; vernacular theology; skaldic poetry; narrative strategies; Marian; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.203; http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37974

The article examines stanzas 27–33 from “Lilja”, an Icelandic biblical paraphrase written in the form of skaldic drapa and dating from the first half of the XIV c. The subject of the article is the sources of these stanzas and the nature of the skald’s work with the sources. Comparative textual anal...