Seventy Essays #14528

Seventy essays dedicated to Jakob Benediktsson, July 20, 1977. Editors Einar G. Pétursson, Jónas Kristjánsson.


The essays are:


* Theodore M. Andersson: Heroic Postures in Homer and the Sagas

* Árni Böðvarsson: Length and forms of final vowels in some Icelandic words

* Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon: About a critical moment

* Baldur Jónsson: On the word sóplimar

* Oskar Bandle: The Place Names of the Landnámabók

* Michael Barnes: Case and the Preposition við in Faroese

* Heinrich Beck: Schwäbisch-alemannisch bohl und nordgermanisch böl - ein historisch-sprachliches Problem

* Hans Bekker-Nielsen: Church Day Sermon

* Bjarni Einarsson: Hidden Treasure at Mosfell Bjarni Guðnason: Theodoricus and Icelandic Historian

* Björn Sigfússon: The Old Treaty Revisited 1302

* Robert Cook: Pope Joan in Iceland

* Sverri Dahl: Medieval prayer house bells in the Faroes

* Ursula and Peter Dronke: The Prologue of the Prose Edda: Explorations of a Latin Background

* Anthony Faulkes: The Genealogies and Regnal Lists in a Manuscript in Resen's Library

* Finnbogi Guðmundsson: "The tongue of mortals is awake"

* Peter Foote: Some Lines in Lögréttuþáttr

* Gísli Gestsson: A Knight's Tale from Trékyllisvík

* John Granlund: Fisket's legal tradition

* Peter Hallberg: Some språkdrag i Alexander's saga and Jewish saga - with an outlook on Management

* Halldór Halldórsson: Reflections on the words bollok and frolla

* Halldór Laxness: Taoteking as a translation problem

* Hallfreður Örn Eiríksson: Verse added to the verb

* Haraldur Bessason: Mythological Overlays

* Helga Kress: We don't have the spirit of women

* Helgi Guðmundsson: On the external circumstances of Icelandic language development

* Rolf Heller: Zur Entstehung der Grönlandszenen der Fóstbreðrásaga

* Hermann Pálsson: Hrafnkell's Saga and Management

* Dietrich Hofmann: Die Bedeutung mündlicher Erzählvarianten für die altisländische Sagaliteratur

* Gösta Holm: Icelandic poetry in East Nordic lighting

* Ludvig Holm-Olsen: Bishop Nikolas Arnesson quotes Thormod Kolbrunarskald

* Finn Hödnebö: Trykk &endash; vocal harmony &endash; vocal balance

* Alfred Jakobsen: Et par wordformer med inskutt ai Thomas saga archbishop I

* Ture Johannisson: On the exchange of taga mot ta in Swedish



Second part:



* Jón Helgason: Twelve Chronicle Articles from the Dark Ages

* Jón Aðalsteinn Jónsson: Some reflections on Jónas Hallgrímsson's translation of Ursinus's Astronomy

* Jón Samsonarson: Poems of the Black Westfjords and On the Wedding Ride of the Hornfjords. Paper in the Rostgårdssafn.

* Jónas Kristjánsson: Egilssaga and the Kings' Sagas

* Peter A. Jorgensen: St. Julian and Basilissa in Medieval Iceland

* Allan Karker: The Disintegration of the Danish Tongue

* Bruno Kress: Konstruktionsschema für isländische Verbalketten

* Kristján Árnason: Preaspiration in Modern Icelandic: Phonetics and
Phonology

* Kristján Eldjárn: About Jón Sigurðsson's Ólafssteini

* Hans Kuhn: Event Studies

* Agnete Loth: Árni Magnússon and Sturlubók

* Jonna Louis-Jensen: "Halldóra Sigurðardóttir has me"

* Lúðvík Kristjánsson: The Fjölnir and Þorsteinn J. Kúld

* Rory McTurk: The Relationship of Ragnars saga loðbrókar to Þiðriks saga af

* Bern Hallvard Mageröy: Skaldestrofer som retardasjonsmiddel i islendingesogene

* Mortan Nolsöe: Várharra takes Jákupsi's hand

* Ólafur Halldórsson: Four clauses in the Flateyjarbók

* Janes Oresnik: Three Modern Icelandic Morphophonemic Notes

* Óskar Halldórsson: The Legend of Grettir. Some Observations

* Richard Perkins: Kergang

* Jóhan Hendrik W. Poulsen: On

* Hubert Seelow: Ásgeir Jónsson und seine "membranartige" Frakturschrift

* Sigurður Þórarinsson: Earth Sciences and Settlement

* Stefán Karlsson: Genealogy of the Kings of Norway

* Dag Strömbäck: Marlíðendr

* Svavar Sigmundsson: Fikki, lummi, vase

* Sveinbjörn Rafnsson: Grágás and Digest Iustiniani

* Sverrir Tómasson: Perfect fortitudo

* Erik Sönderholm: Fra en oversätters værksted

* Preben Meulengracht Sörensen: Starkadr, Loki and Egill Skallagrimsson

* Gabriel Turville-Petre: Outlawry

* Vésteinn Ólason: Eating Your Enemy - Marxism and Independent People

* Chr. Westergård-Nielsen: Litt om to psalterhåndskrifter i Icelandic miljø

* Ole Widding: Such and Such in Norse Prose

* Þór Magnússon: The poem about the king's mother

* Þorleifur Hauksson: On the worldview of the Passion Psalms