Margaret Clunies Ross
Biographic Data
| ID | 5629113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Clunies Ross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret Clunies |
| FAMILY NAME | Ross |
| SIGNATURE | ROSS M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The flowing-haired friend of the fire of altars
There are very few sources, other than material remains and spatial arrangements revealed by archaeological excavation, that can give modern researchers access to the thought-world of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. Some skaldic poetry presumed to have been composed before the Conversion may offer a window onto this thought-world. This article investigates how a single kenning from a stanza composed by the tenth-century Icelander Egill Skall…
Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature
Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the Bonds
Book Review| January 01 2020 Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the Bonds Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the Bonds. By Jonas Wellendorf. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. x + 206 pp; 1 illustration. $99.99. Margaret Clunies Ross Margaret Clunies Ross University of Adelaide Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germa…
William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas
Book Review| January 01 2020 William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas. By Ian Felce. Medievalism, 13. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018. Pp. xv + 195. $99. Margaret Clunies Ross Margaret Clunies Ross University of Adelaide Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2020) 119 (1): 134–136. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.119.1.0134 Cite Icon Cite …
The Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Research and Reception, Volume I: From the Middle Ages to c. 1850
The Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Research and Reception, Volume I
"This book reveals the various ways people have understood or reacted to Scandinavian paganism from the Middle Ages to today. Over more than a thousand years since pre-Christian religions were actively practised, European, and later contemporary, society has developed a fascination with the beliefs of northern Europe before the arrival of Christianity, which have been the subject of a huge range of popular and scholarly theories, interpretations,…
A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia
This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as human heroes and supernatural beings alike grapple with betrayal, loyalty, mortality and love. T…
The transmission and preservation of eddic poetry
In the period before c.1000–1100, when the Scandinavian peoples began to adopt the technology of writing using the Roman alphabet, there is evidence from early runic inscriptions that they, along with other groups speaking Germanic languages, participated in the composition and recitation of alliterative poetry in what has been called the common Germanic verse-form (Lehmann 1956). In Old Norse scholarship, poetry in that common Germanic verse-for…
The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga
The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are descr…
Medieval Iceland
That winter Ingólfr held a great sacrifice and sought for himself an omen concerning his destiny...The intelligence directed Ingólfr to Iceland. After that each of those kinsmen [Ingólfr and his brother-in-law Hjǫrleifr] prepared his ship for the voyage to Iceland; Hjǫrleifr had his war booty on board, and Ingólfr [carried] their common property, and they put out to sea when they were ready...When Ingólfr saw Iceland he threw his high-seat pillar…
When the Norns Have Spoken. Time and Fate in Germanic Paganism – By Anthony Winterbourne
Learning and understanding in the Old Norse world: Essays in honour of Margaret Clunies Ross
Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend . John McKinnell
Eyrbyggja saga: The Vellum Tradition . Forrest S. Scott
A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics
An accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia.
Staður í nýjum heimi: Konungasagan Morkinskinna . Ármann Jakobsson
Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society
"Disputats om "Initiation, liminalitet og tilegnelse af numiøs viden
An Anglo-Saxon runic coin and its adventures in Sweden
In the years 1741–3, two scholars of Anglo-Saxon and Gothic, one an Englishman and the other a Swede, were engaged in correspondence. The Englishman was the Reverend Edward Lye (1694–1767), then rector of Yardley Hastings in Northamptonshire, and the Swede was Eric Benzelius the Younger (1675–1743), bishop of Linköping and, in the last year of his life, archbishop-elect of Uppsala. For many years Benzelius had been preparing an edition of the ‘Co…
Old Icelandic Literature and Society
From the period of settlement (870–930) to the end of the fourteenth century, Icelanders produced one of the most varied and original literatures of medieval Europe. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social setting and across a range of genres. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an establi…
A jitter after-effect reveals motion-based stabilization of vision
A shaky hand holding a video camera invariably turns a treasured moment into an annoying, jittery momento. More recent consumer cameras thoughtfully offer stabilization mechanisms to compensate for our unsteady grip. Our eyes face a similar challenge in that they are constantly making small movements even when we try to maintain a fixed gaze. What should be substantial, distracting jitter passes completely unseen. Position changes from large eye …
Australia: Goyulan: The Morning Star. An Aboriginal Clan Song Series from North Central Arnhem Land
The Anglo-Saxon and Norse Rune Poems: A comparative study
It has been customary, since comparative scholarship in the field of Germanic literatures began, to explain perceived similarities between Old English and Old Norse poetry in terms of their derivation from common cultural roots and closely cognate languages. Similarities in the two poetic systems have been regarded as evidence of the conservation of ideas, figures of speech and poetic forms. Such similarities have then been used to reveal what th…
Pseudo-Procreation Myths in Old Norse: An Anthropological Perspective1
Songs of Aboriginal Australia
Formal Performance: The Relations of Music, Text and Dance in Arnhem Land Clan Songs
The or manikay of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia are realized by their Aboriginal owners in performance alone and are orally transmitted.1 These performances are formal in that they obey certain variable rules and achieve variable but consistent structures depending on the nature of the different performance occasions for which they are deemed appropriate (Clunies Ross 1983). The variability of their performance contexts, determ…
Songs of Aboriginal Australia
Concubinage in Anglo-saxon England
CONCUBINAGE IN ANGLO‐SAXON ENGLAND Get access Margaret Clunies Ross Margaret Clunies Ross University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 108, Issue 1, August 1985, Pages 3–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/108.1.3 Published: 01 August 1985
"Disputats om "Initiation, liminalitet og tilegnelse af numiøs viden
The Structure of Arnhem Land Song‐poetry
Formal Performance: The Relations of Music, Text and Dance in Arnhem Land Clan Songs
The or manikay of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia are realized by their Aboriginal owners in performance alone and are orally transmitted.1 These performances are formal in that they obey certain variable rules and achieve variable but consistent structures depending on the nature of the different performance occasions for which they are deemed appropriate (Clunies Ross 1983). The variability of their performance contexts, determ…
Concubinage in Anglo-saxon England
CONCUBINAGE IN ANGLO‐SAXON ENGLAND Get access Margaret Clunies Ross Margaret Clunies Ross University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 108, Issue 1, August 1985, Pages 3–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/108.1.3 Published: 01 August 1985
The Aesthetics and Politics of an Arnhem Land Ritual
Territory of Australia. The visitors were anthropologist Les Hiatt, myself and our two children, and Kim McKenzie, a filmmaker from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra, together with his sound recordist, Peter Barker. Les had known and worked closely with the Anbarra since I958, I had known them since 1975, but Peter and Kim had never met them before. Betty Meehan, Les's former wife, was also visiting the Anbarra at this ti…
A Tale-Type Index of Australian Aboriginal Oral Narratives
Songs of Aboriginal Australia
The Anglo-Saxon and Norse Rune Poems: A comparative study
It has been customary, since comparative scholarship in the field of Germanic literatures began, to explain perceived similarities between Old English and Old Norse poetry in terms of their derivation from common cultural roots and closely cognate languages. Similarities in the two poetic systems have been regarded as evidence of the conservation of ideas, figures of speech and poetic forms. Such similarities have then been used to reveal what th…
Pseudo-Procreation Myths in Old Norse: An Anthropological Perspective1
Songs of Aboriginal Australia
Australia: Goyulan: The Morning Star. An Aboriginal Clan Song Series from North Central Arnhem Land
A jitter after-effect reveals motion-based stabilization of vision
A shaky hand holding a video camera invariably turns a treasured moment into an annoying, jittery momento. More recent consumer cameras thoughtfully offer stabilization mechanisms to compensate for our unsteady grip. Our eyes face a similar challenge in that they are constantly making small movements even when we try to maintain a fixed gaze. What should be substantial, distracting jitter passes completely unseen. Position changes from large eye …
Old Icelandic Literature and Society
From the period of settlement (870–930) to the end of the fourteenth century, Icelanders produced one of the most varied and original literatures of medieval Europe. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social setting and across a range of genres. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an establi…
An Anglo-Saxon runic coin and its adventures in Sweden
In the years 1741–3, two scholars of Anglo-Saxon and Gothic, one an Englishman and the other a Swede, were engaged in correspondence. The Englishman was the Reverend Edward Lye (1694–1767), then rector of Yardley Hastings in Northamptonshire, and the Swede was Eric Benzelius the Younger (1675–1743), bishop of Linköping and, in the last year of his life, archbishop-elect of Uppsala. For many years Benzelius had been preparing an edition of the ‘Co…
Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society
"Disputats om "Initiation, liminalitet og tilegnelse af numiøs viden
A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics
An accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia.
Staður í nýjum heimi: Konungasagan Morkinskinna . Ármann Jakobsson
Eyrbyggja saga: The Vellum Tradition . Forrest S. Scott
Learning and understanding in the Old Norse world: Essays in honour of Margaret Clunies Ross
Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend . John McKinnell
When the Norns Have Spoken. Time and Fate in Germanic Paganism – By Anthony Winterbourne
The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga
The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are descr…
Medieval Iceland
That winter Ingólfr held a great sacrifice and sought for himself an omen concerning his destiny...The intelligence directed Ingólfr to Iceland. After that each of those kinsmen [Ingólfr and his brother-in-law Hjǫrleifr] prepared his ship for the voyage to Iceland; Hjǫrleifr had his war booty on board, and Ingólfr [carried] their common property, and they put out to sea when they were ready...When Ingólfr saw Iceland he threw his high-seat pillar…
A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia
This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as human heroes and supernatural beings alike grapple with betrayal, loyalty, mortality and love. T…
The transmission and preservation of eddic poetry
In the period before c.1000–1100, when the Scandinavian peoples began to adopt the technology of writing using the Roman alphabet, there is evidence from early runic inscriptions that they, along with other groups speaking Germanic languages, participated in the composition and recitation of alliterative poetry in what has been called the common Germanic verse-form (Lehmann 1956). In Old Norse scholarship, poetry in that common Germanic verse-for…
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