Roberta Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3682175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Old English Studies and Its Scandinavian Practitioners
Old English Lexicology and Lexicography
Dróttkvætt
Dróttkvætt Roberta Frank (bio) I set myself rules in order to be totally free. —Georges Perec1 Dróttkvætt. Old Norse court poetry, the verse of scalp-tingling wordsmiths, of wanderers on the whale's mean streets, of silver-tongued advertisers ("Eiríkr Bloodaxe rules OK"). Its stanza-form, a sculpture carved into time. In dróttkvætt, all things are numbers; the shape of reality is mathematical. Once tuned in to the mystic high frequencies of the u…
A taste for knottiness
During Cnut’s two decades on the throne, his English court was the most vibrant centre in the North for the production and performance of skaldic praise poetry. Icelandic poets composing for earlier Anglo-Saxon kings had focused on the predictive power of royal ‘speaking’ names: for example, Æthelstan (‘Noble-Rock’) and Æthelred (‘Noble-Counsel’). The name Cnut presented problems, vulnerable as it was to cross-linguistic gaffes and embarrassing a…
Germanic legend in Old English literature
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
A Scandal in Toronto
Terminally Hip and Incredibly Cool
Las leyendas germánicas en la literatura inglesa antigua
Las leyendas germánicas en la literatura inglesa antigua
Scyld and Scef
The Dating of Eddic Poetry
Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age
An Aspirin for Beowulf
Medieval Scandinavia
Humiliation
La poésie Scaldique . Régis Boyer
Anglo-Scandinavian Poetic Relations
NotesR.I. Page, rev. The Vikings (1982), ed. R. Farrell, in Saga-Book of the Viking Society 21 (1982–85), 309.Dietrich Hofmann, “Untersuchungen zu den altenglischen Gedichten Genesis und Exodus,” Anglia 75(1957), 1–34. E.B. Irving, “On the Dating of the Old English Poems Genesis and Exodus,” Anglia 77 (1959), 1–11.Roberta Frank, “Skaldic Verse and the Date of Beowulf,” in The Dating of Beowulf, ed. Colin Chase (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1981), pp.…
"Beowulf" and the Appositive Style . Fred C. Robinson
Viking atrocity and Skaldic verse
The Rite of the Blood-Eagle THE rehabilitation of the viking begun by Peter Sawyer over thirty years ago has recently taken a curious turn. 1 New studies of the Scandinavian invaders of England seem determined to stress their demonic side, to expose the dark virulence and fanaticism of Norse paganism. Vikings in these works behave for the most part like rational political beings. They are committed to career advancement, territorial aggrandizemen…
Scandinavian Kings in the British Isles, 850-880
Njáls Saga
Franks Casket. Zu den Bildern und Inschriften des Runenkästchens von Auzon . Alfred Becker
Old English Literature . M. W. Grose , Deirdre McKenna
Marriage in the Middle Ages, 4. Marriage in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Iceland
Some Uses of Paronomasia in Old English Scriptural Verse
A Scandal in Toronto
Viking atrocity and Skaldic verse
The Rite of the Blood-Eagle THE rehabilitation of the viking begun by Peter Sawyer over thirty years ago has recently taken a curious turn. 1 New studies of the Scandinavian invaders of England seem determined to stress their demonic side, to expose the dark virulence and fanaticism of Norse paganism. Vikings in these works behave for the most part like rational political beings. They are committed to career advancement, territorial aggrandizemen…
Some Uses of Paronomasia in Old English Scriptural Verse
Viator
Volume 2 of Viator has a strong medieval bias: out of twenty-two articles, only three touch on the Renaissance.Henry Ansgar Kelly's "The Metamorphoses of the Eden Serpent during the Middle Ages and Renaissance" focuses on the lady-faced Eden serpent of medieval literature, drama, and art and does not brood over the gradual masculinization of this human-headed tempter in the sixteenth century.In "Mehmed II the Conqueror and his Presumed Knowledge …
Some Uses of Paronomasia in Old English Scriptural Verse
Marriage in the Middle Ages, 4. Marriage in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Iceland
Old English Literature . M. W. Grose , Deirdre McKenna
Franks Casket. Zu den Bildern und Inschriften des Runenkästchens von Auzon . Alfred Becker
Scandinavian Kings in the British Isles, 850-880
Njáls Saga
Viking atrocity and Skaldic verse
The Rite of the Blood-Eagle THE rehabilitation of the viking begun by Peter Sawyer over thirty years ago has recently taken a curious turn. 1 New studies of the Scandinavian invaders of England seem determined to stress their demonic side, to expose the dark virulence and fanaticism of Norse paganism. Vikings in these works behave for the most part like rational political beings. They are committed to career advancement, territorial aggrandizemen…
"Beowulf" and the Appositive Style . Fred C. Robinson
Anglo-Scandinavian Poetic Relations
NotesR.I. Page, rev. The Vikings (1982), ed. R. Farrell, in Saga-Book of the Viking Society 21 (1982–85), 309.Dietrich Hofmann, “Untersuchungen zu den altenglischen Gedichten Genesis und Exodus,” Anglia 75(1957), 1–34. E.B. Irving, “On the Dating of the Old English Poems Genesis and Exodus,” Anglia 77 (1959), 1–11.Roberta Frank, “Skaldic Verse and the Date of Beowulf,” in The Dating of Beowulf, ed. Colin Chase (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1981), pp.…
Humiliation
La poésie Scaldique . Régis Boyer
Medieval Scandinavia
Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age
An Aspirin for Beowulf
The Dating of Eddic Poetry
Scyld and Scef
Las leyendas germánicas en la literatura inglesa antigua
Las leyendas germánicas en la literatura inglesa antigua
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
A Scandal in Toronto
Terminally Hip and Incredibly Cool
Germanic legend in Old English literature
A taste for knottiness
During Cnut’s two decades on the throne, his English court was the most vibrant centre in the North for the production and performance of skaldic praise poetry. Icelandic poets composing for earlier Anglo-Saxon kings had focused on the predictive power of royal ‘speaking’ names: for example, Æthelstan (‘Noble-Rock’) and Æthelred (‘Noble-Counsel’). The name Cnut presented problems, vulnerable as it was to cross-linguistic gaffes and embarrassing a…
Dróttkvætt
Dróttkvætt Roberta Frank (bio) I set myself rules in order to be totally free. —Georges Perec1 Dróttkvætt. Old Norse court poetry, the verse of scalp-tingling wordsmiths, of wanderers on the whale's mean streets, of silver-tongued advertisers ("Eiríkr Bloodaxe rules OK"). Its stanza-form, a sculpture carved into time. In dróttkvætt, all things are numbers; the shape of reality is mathematical. Once tuned in to the mystic high frequencies of the u…
Old English Lexicology and Lexicography
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