title: Seaxes and skalms: Single-edged weapon in the Old Icelandic texts
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metadata.value: Khlevov, Alexander
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metadata.value: Goubanov, Ilya
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-09-23T15:24:17Z
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metadata.value: 2024-09-23T15:24:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Khlevov A. A., Goubanov I. B. Seaxes and skalms: Single-edged weapon in the Old Icelandic texts. Scandinavian Philology, 2024, vol. 22, issue 1, pp. 192–209. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2024.112
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2024.112
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/47579
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metadata.value: The article examines the problem of the use in combat conditions and classification
  of single-edged short-bladed weapons of the Germanic and neighboring peoples
  of Europe in the early Middle Ages — combat knives seaxes. The authors consider
  the numerous existing archaeological finds in the context of terms used in modern
  Scandinavian languages, and also turn to the analysis of options for using the terms
  “seax” and “skalm” in archaic texts. A contextual analysis of the use of these terms in
  the poetic texts of songs from the Elder Edda and the prose of Icelandic sagas belonging
  to various subtypes is presented. According to the authors, the term “skalm” had a
  very specific purpose and fell out of everyday use — as a designation for a real type of
  weapon — long before the Viking Age. In the texts describing the Viking Age, it is not
  people who are consistently armed with skalms, but the dark and negative characters
  opposing them — trolls, jotuns, etc. However, in the heroic epic tradition, skalms, on
  the contrary, are used by heroes; It was the skalms that became part of the poetic formulas
  describing the equipment of the heroes of the epic. There is reason to believe that
  this term comes from ancient times and by the Viking Age it became an anachronism,
  acquiring new connotations and negative meaning.
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metadata.value: ru
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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: seax
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: skalm
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: single-edged weapon
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Viking Age
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Icelandic sagas
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sagas of ancient times
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Elder Edda
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Seaxes and skalms: Single-edged weapon in the Old Icelandic texts
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metadata.value: Article
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