“Persistent Motifs of Cursing from Old Norse Literature in Buslubœn”

"Buslubœn" is a fictional charm included in a relatively late Icelandic text, "Bósa saga", that can be ranged within the 'fornaldarsögur', as scholars named a group of fable-like narratives set in a distant past that enjoyed vast popularity in medieval Iceland. This s...

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Main Author: LOZZI GALLO, Lorenzo
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2004
Subjects:
Buslubœn
Bósa saga
letteratura norrena
Norse literature
Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11586/83619
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spelling ftunivbari:oai:ricerca.uniba.it:11586/83619 2024-04-14T08:13:28+00:00 “Persistent Motifs of Cursing from Old Norse Literature in Buslubœn” LOZZI GALLO, Lorenzo LOZZI GALLO, Lorenzo 2004 http://hdl.handle.net/11586/83619 eng eng volume:18 firstpage:119 lastpage:146 numberofpages:28 journal:LINGUISTICA E FILOLOGIA http://hdl.handle.net/11586/83619 Buslubœn Bósa saga letteratura norrena Norse literature info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2004 ftunivbari 2024-03-21T18:04:21Z "Buslubœn" is a fictional charm included in a relatively late Icelandic text, "Bósa saga", that can be ranged within the 'fornaldarsögur', as scholars named a group of fable-like narratives set in a distant past that enjoyed vast popularity in medieval Iceland. This study shows that a number of features in "Buslubœn" could have been inspired by long-lost actual magic formulas from oral tradition, preserving interesting traces of heathen concepts even centuries after Iceland had been converted. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro: CINECA IRIS
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Bósa saga
letteratura norrena
Norse literature
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Bósa saga
letteratura norrena
Norse literature
LOZZI GALLO, Lorenzo
“Persistent Motifs of Cursing from Old Norse Literature in Buslubœn”
topic_facet Buslubœn
Bósa saga
letteratura norrena
Norse literature
description "Buslubœn" is a fictional charm included in a relatively late Icelandic text, "Bósa saga", that can be ranged within the 'fornaldarsögur', as scholars named a group of fable-like narratives set in a distant past that enjoyed vast popularity in medieval Iceland. This study shows that a number of features in "Buslubœn" could have been inspired by long-lost actual magic formulas from oral tradition, preserving interesting traces of heathen concepts even centuries after Iceland had been converted.
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author LOZZI GALLO, Lorenzo
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title “Persistent Motifs of Cursing from Old Norse Literature in Buslubœn”
title_short “Persistent Motifs of Cursing from Old Norse Literature in Buslubœn”
title_full “Persistent Motifs of Cursing from Old Norse Literature in Buslubœn”
title_fullStr “Persistent Motifs of Cursing from Old Norse Literature in Buslubœn”
title_full_unstemmed “Persistent Motifs of Cursing from Old Norse Literature in Buslubœn”
title_sort “persistent motifs of cursing from old norse literature in buslubœn”
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firstpage:119
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