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Bandrúnir in Icelandic Sagas

Runic echoes permeate saga literature; the runes of divine origin, rúnar reginkunnar, of the Sparlösa and Noleby stones recur in Hávamál, while the evocative Swedish Skarpåker runestone (Jör› skal rifna ok upphiminn) or the Danish Ribe stick (Jör› bi› ek uar›a ok upphiminn) are strongly reminiscent of Germanic poetry (cf. Jansson 1987: 140f.). References to elves and trolls, and even invocation...

Modern Times

Diabetes : Modern Times.

*Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi General Hospital, Bologna, Italy, 40138 I 1964 Dorothy Crowfort Hodgkin (19101944) (Figure 1) won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin molecular structure by X-ray crystallography. In 1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born in 1921) (Figure 2) was awarded with Nobel Prize for the development of radioimmunoassay of polypep...

Getting Your Head Around: the Vowel System of Modern Icelandic

The vowel system of Modern Icelandic, unlike that of Old Icelandic, continues to spawn different interpretations. Scholars do not appear to be nearer any consensus of views than they were in 1960, when the distinguished Russian linguist, Steblin-Kamenskij, commenting on the situation, noted with some playfulness: ... are we to infer that it is the more difficult to reconstruct a phonemic system...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...