title: Old Icelandic hel ‘world of the dead, the Dead-Goddess Hel’ in the Younger Edda and the comparison with the Elder Edda
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metadata.value: Toporova, Tatyana
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metadata.value: 2024-09-23T14:26:47Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Toporova T. V. Old Icelandic hel ‘world of the dead, the Dead-Goddess Hel’ in the Younger Edda and the comparison with the Elder Edda. Scandinavian Philology, 2024, vol. 22, issue 1, pp. 64–78. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2024.104 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2024.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/47571
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metadata.value: The purpose of this article is a comprehensive study of O.-Icel. hel ‘the underworld;
  the dead-goddess Hel’ in the Younger Edda, in the prose work of Snorri Sturluson
  (1222–1225) and a comparative analysis with the corresponding lexeme in the Elder
  Edda, the Old Icelandic poetic epic (the main manuscript of Codex Regius 2365 of the
  second half of the 13th century). The material of the Younger Edda allows reconstructing
  the semantic development of hel (locus) → Hel (its personification, owner). We
  can state the presence of fundamental similarities, found in this lexeme in the Elder
  and Younger Edda, manifested in various areas — in the common most frequent cases
  (gen. and dat.) and the syntactic function of direction realized by the verbs of motion,
  association with the bottom, synonymous predicates of the subject (to be, to live), extralinguistic
  details (gates). In the Younger Edda O.-Icel. hel is a hyponym for heimr,
  that is, it is one of the worlds along with Asgard, Midgard and the World of Giants,
  while in the Elder Edda this lexeme has the antonym of O.-Icel. heimr, that is, as the
  kingdom of death, it is opposed to one single concrete world of the living inhabited by
  people — Midgard, ʽthe middle enclosed spaceʼ. If in the Elder Edda the anthropocentric
  position dominates in the description of O.-Icel. hel, then theocentrism prevails in
  the Younger Edda.
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 22; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Younger Edda
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Elder Edda
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metadata.value: Old Icelandic language
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metadata.value: mythopoetic model of the world
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metadata.value: grammar
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: morphology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: semantics
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: syntax
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: poetics
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: comparative analysis
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Old Icelandic hel ‘world of the dead, the Dead-Goddess Hel’ in the Younger Edda and the comparison with the Elder Edda
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