Spor i ord: En undersøkelse av ordet "gagarr" (hund) i norrøn poesi
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2023Metadata
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Collegium Medievale. 2023, 36 219-239.Abstract
This article is based on recent research about Irish loanwords to Old Norse, but
also a former discussion about the word gagarr (dog) and whether it originates
in Norse or Gaelic languages. The main argument here for gagarr originating
in Gaelic and being a loanword to Old Norse, is the analogy with other Irish
loanwords particular for a poetic context. Hence all known Old Norse texts
where this poetic word is mentioned are scrutinized and analyzed to see what
context and situation can tell us about the use of this word. The method applied
is close reading following guidelines of new criticism and literary anthropology,
resting on a hermeneutic approach. The results are seen in the light of cultural
memory theory.