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Research paper thumbnail of A "Valknut" In the Capitol: Viking Age Symbol and Modern Myth

temp. Tidsskrift for Historie, 2021

This piece was published alongside Richard Cole, "Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives on Viole... more This piece was published alongside Richard Cole, "Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives on Violence Against Objects" (183-197), and Frederik Lynge Vognsen, "Ejendomsret, demokrati og retten til 'at tage'. Mellem middelalder og stormen på Capitol 6. januar 2021" (204-207).

Research paper thumbnail of Sonatorrek: Egill Skallagrímsson's Critique of Death

Research paper thumbnail of Dis-embodied Cognition and Sensory Perception in Sólarljóð

Sensory Perception in the Medieval West

In "Sensory Perception in the Medieval West", ed. Simon Thomson & Michael Bintley, 2016, pp. 195-... more In "Sensory Perception in the Medieval West", ed. Simon Thomson & Michael Bintley, 2016, pp. 195-206

The original title of this paper had the word "Disembodied" with a strikethrough in "Dis;" sadly this did not make it into print due to purely technical reasons. Hopefully the reader will be able to appreciate the significance of the original typographical choice.

Unpublished Papers, Talks, and Seminars by Pete Sandberg

Research paper thumbnail of The Means of Production: Smithing (and) the stylistics of Vǫlundarkviða

Research paper thumbnail of Mourning and fractured identity in Eddic and Skaldic poetry: Sonatorrek and Guðrúnarkviða I

Research paper thumbnail of The Syntax of Prophecy in Eddic Poetry

The mythic narratives that are the subject of much Eddic poetry have an unclear relationship to t... more The mythic narratives that are the subject of much Eddic poetry have an unclear relationship to time. Völuspá in particular plays with grammatical markers that indicate qualities of time, and this seems especially appropriate in a text that is supposed to be a “prophecy.” Several stanzas of Völuspá provide a model for prophetic proclamations. However, in this paper I focus on a particularly cryptic stanza of Atlakviða which seems to be prophetic, but has a(n even) less clear-cut relationship to time than do the future-themed stanzas of Völuspá. In this paper I examine the complex syntactic model this stanza (itself composed seemingly of a single sentence) and consider how it relates a view of time, and how this might be adapted from a formula that is used in other Eddic poems, especially Völuspá.

Research paper thumbnail of (Dis)embodied cognition and sensory perception in Old Norse poetry

From a cognitive-linguistic point of view, sensory information and linguistic information are ent... more From a cognitive-linguistic point of view, sensory information and linguistic information are entangled: sensory experiences form our understanding of abstract concepts through conceptual metaphors. Language activates sensory cognition even when sensory phenomena are not, as such, the topic of discussion. Poetry is a medium that draws attention to the raw material it is made of, that is, language. It is therefore very common for poems to exploit sensory processing and memory in readers or listeners. Eddic poetry tends toward the vague and allusive, often using sensory schemata to represent abstractions. I would like to focus on the way the narrator of the poem Sólarljóð uses sensuous language to represent himself as a mind, and the conceptual problem this entails for a reader of this poem: the sensuous information allows us to read the narrator as an embodied mind, but he is in fact speaking from beyond the grave and therefore literally disembodied. I believe this could raise some interesting questions about medieval psychology and language.

Book Reviews by Pete Sandberg

Research paper thumbnail of Review: "Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry: A Narrative Study of Vafþrúðnismál". Andrew McGillivray (2018)

Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Review: "The Poetic Edda. Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes". Trans. Jackson Crawford (2015)

Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research, 2017

Papers by Pete Sandberg

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Hear Here’: Poetic Citation and the Bureaucratic Spirit of Gylfaginning

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of A Valknut in the Capitol Viking Age Symbol and Modern Myth

Temp - tidsskrift for historie, Aug 19, 2021

This piece was published alongside Richard Cole, "Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives... more This piece was published alongside Richard Cole, "Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives on Violence Against Objects" (183-197), and Frederik Lynge Vognsen, "Ejendomsret, demokrati og retten til 'at tage'. Mellem middelalder og stormen på Capitol 6. januar 2021" (204-207).

Research paper thumbnail of A "Valknut" In the Capitol: Viking Age Symbol and Modern Myth

temp. Tidsskrift for Historie, 2021

This piece was published alongside Richard Cole, "Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives on Viole... more This piece was published alongside Richard Cole, "Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives on Violence Against Objects" (183-197), and Frederik Lynge Vognsen, "Ejendomsret, demokrati og retten til 'at tage'. Mellem middelalder og stormen på Capitol 6. januar 2021" (204-207).

Research paper thumbnail of Sonatorrek: Egill Skallagrímsson's Critique of Death

Research paper thumbnail of Dis-embodied Cognition and Sensory Perception in Sólarljóð

Sensory Perception in the Medieval West

In "Sensory Perception in the Medieval West", ed. Simon Thomson & Michael Bintley, 2016, pp. 195-... more In "Sensory Perception in the Medieval West", ed. Simon Thomson & Michael Bintley, 2016, pp. 195-206

The original title of this paper had the word "Disembodied" with a strikethrough in "Dis;" sadly this did not make it into print due to purely technical reasons. Hopefully the reader will be able to appreciate the significance of the original typographical choice.

Research paper thumbnail of The Means of Production: Smithing (and) the stylistics of Vǫlundarkviða

Research paper thumbnail of Mourning and fractured identity in Eddic and Skaldic poetry: Sonatorrek and Guðrúnarkviða I

Research paper thumbnail of The Syntax of Prophecy in Eddic Poetry

The mythic narratives that are the subject of much Eddic poetry have an unclear relationship to t... more The mythic narratives that are the subject of much Eddic poetry have an unclear relationship to time. Völuspá in particular plays with grammatical markers that indicate qualities of time, and this seems especially appropriate in a text that is supposed to be a “prophecy.” Several stanzas of Völuspá provide a model for prophetic proclamations. However, in this paper I focus on a particularly cryptic stanza of Atlakviða which seems to be prophetic, but has a(n even) less clear-cut relationship to time than do the future-themed stanzas of Völuspá. In this paper I examine the complex syntactic model this stanza (itself composed seemingly of a single sentence) and consider how it relates a view of time, and how this might be adapted from a formula that is used in other Eddic poems, especially Völuspá.

Research paper thumbnail of (Dis)embodied cognition and sensory perception in Old Norse poetry

From a cognitive-linguistic point of view, sensory information and linguistic information are ent... more From a cognitive-linguistic point of view, sensory information and linguistic information are entangled: sensory experiences form our understanding of abstract concepts through conceptual metaphors. Language activates sensory cognition even when sensory phenomena are not, as such, the topic of discussion. Poetry is a medium that draws attention to the raw material it is made of, that is, language. It is therefore very common for poems to exploit sensory processing and memory in readers or listeners. Eddic poetry tends toward the vague and allusive, often using sensory schemata to represent abstractions. I would like to focus on the way the narrator of the poem Sólarljóð uses sensuous language to represent himself as a mind, and the conceptual problem this entails for a reader of this poem: the sensuous information allows us to read the narrator as an embodied mind, but he is in fact speaking from beyond the grave and therefore literally disembodied. I believe this could raise some interesting questions about medieval psychology and language.

Research paper thumbnail of Review: "Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry: A Narrative Study of Vafþrúðnismál". Andrew McGillivray (2018)

Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Review: "The Poetic Edda. Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes". Trans. Jackson Crawford (2015)

Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Hear Here’: Poetic Citation and the Bureaucratic Spirit of Gylfaginning

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of A Valknut in the Capitol Viking Age Symbol and Modern Myth

Temp - tidsskrift for historie, Aug 19, 2021

This piece was published alongside Richard Cole, "Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives... more This piece was published alongside Richard Cole, "Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives on Violence Against Objects" (183-197), and Frederik Lynge Vognsen, "Ejendomsret, demokrati og retten til 'at tage'. Mellem middelalder og stormen på Capitol 6. januar 2021" (204-207).