Exploring Religious Ritual Frameworks in the Oral Performance of the Old Norse, Eddic-Style Praise Poems <em>Hákonar­mál</em>, <em>Eiríksmál</em>, and <em>Hrafnsmál</em>

Abstract

This article builds on chapters of my unpublished PhD dissertation (Nygaard 2019a) and con tains revised version of parts of these chapters. I want to thank Terry Gunnell, Frog, and Joonas Ahola for valuable comments and suggestions on this article at various points in its making.