La Saga des Bretons. Étude, édition et traduction des Breta Sögur islandaises, éd. Hélène Tétrel, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2021 by Christelle Fairise

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Where be dragons? by Miguel Andrade

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The library of the genius: The manuscript collection of Rasmus Christian Rask by Silvia Hufnagel

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Henry Rider Haggard’s Nordicism? When Black Vikings fight alongside White Zulus in South Africa by Gilles TEULIÉ

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The French connection: Some Icelandic translations of French literature in manuscript and print, ca. 1400-1900 by Matthew James Driscoll

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El país del que vienen los monstruos by Santiago Barreiro

“…The analysis focuses on the first element (fīfẹl-), given the complexity involved in its explanation, by reference to its ties with biblical themes, and to two close vernacular literatures, Irish and Old Norse. The text proposes that, instead of proposing a directly monstrous character as it is usual in translations, the expression refers mostly to a space of wilderness and excess.…”
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« Nos a Gulielmo victi... » ou histoire, linguistique et idéologie by Christophe Bord

“…To achieve this goal it rather systematically adopts four main strategies: besides overemphasizing the importance of function words in the English lexicon, it ignores the Celtic substratum and downplays the different varieties of the French superstratum, while boosting the Old Norse adstratum for purely historical reasons of Germanic relatedness. …”
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