Rasmus Christian Rask , 1787-1832, Danish philologist. Rask was a major linguistic pioneer. He published one of the first usable Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic grammars (translated into English). Rask also produced much valuable work on the relationship of the Indo-European languages.
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"Ethnopaleography" and Recovered Performance: The Problematic Witnesses to "Eddic Song"
Western Folklore; 1/1/2003; Harris, Joseph; 7065 words;
... poems proper must belong to the pre-Christian period (before 1000 in Iceland). Later ... tenth; Haraldr died in 1066; and the Christian poem is from the late middle ages ... contemporary) testimony, a 1798 reference by Rasmus Nyerup to the supplier of the Laborde ... student of Icelandic, the grammarian ...
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Narratives of magic and healing: Oldtidens Sortebog in Norway and the New Land.
Scandinavian Studies; 9/22/2001; Stokker, Kathleen; 6703 words;
... church historian Anton Christian Bang (1840-1913), det ... an 1816 description by Rasmus Nyerup of popular reading ... formulas originated in pre-Christian incantations, which were ... such as renouncing one's Christian faith, signing one's ... patriarch of the early Christian church, Cyprianus ...
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SHORTER NOTICES.(Review)
Medium Aevum; 3/22/2000; 6750 words;
... Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity (New York: Oxford University ... extensive extracts from early Christian texts in English translation ... studies on The Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain, 1031-1157 ... to court rolls, charters, maps, and funerary monuments ... Brothers Grimm; Kirsten Wolf on ...
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Tainted Sources: The Subversion of the Grimms' Ideology of the Folktale in Heinrich Heine's Der Rabbi von Bacherach1
German Quarterly; 1/1/2005; Schreiber, Elliott; 9773 words;
... of the second edition of the KHM. The present study explores the terms of Heine's critique, and in the process maps out the discursive field of the folktale in the first half of the nineteenth century as a highly contested terrain ... strangers smuggled it into the house, planting evidence with which to charge the Jews ...
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Mirror image of a young man in balance. (excerpt from 'Fortaellinger am natten') (fiction) (New Danish Fiction)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 3/22/1995; Hoeg, Peter Hugus, Frank; 3870 words;
... symbol of vanitas, pride, one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Hans Christian Andersen's and Lewis Carroll's mirrors are menacing, unreliable ... other's emptiness. After that, the mirror they held up to Rasmus Rask's lips to see whether he was alive. After that, his corpse ...
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