lunedì 11 maggio 2009
Denmark in the past and in the present
PAST AND PRESENT
This following article by Sune Dahlgård was printed in the anti-immigration magazine Danskeren (The Dane) in April 1995. Sune Dahlgård was interned by the Germans during the Second World War because he had printed and distributed illegal papers. In order to avoid misunderstandings all quotations in italics are taken literally from comment to the Bill introduced by the minister of justice.
This following article by Sune Dahlgård was printed in the anti-immigration magazine Danskeren (The Dane) in April 1995. Sune Dahlgård was interned by the Germans during the Second World War because he had printed and distributed illegal papers. In order to avoid misunderstandings all quotations in italics are taken literally from comment to the Bill introduced by the minister of justice.
lunedì 4 maggio 2009
A kenning is a circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse and later Icelandic poetry. For example, Old Norse poets might replace sverð, the regular word for “sword”, with a compound such as ben-grefill “wound-hoe”or a genitive phrase such as randa íss “ice of shields”. The term kenning has been applied by modern scholars to similar figures of speech in other languages too, especially Old English.
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