AN APPROACH TO THE LINGUISTIC-CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE OLD ICELANDIC RUNE-POEM

Abstract

The paper deals with the linguistic-cultural analysis of the Old Icelandic Rune-Poem. Each rune is presented as a complicated shaped token with the multilayer semantics which evolves to the microtext consequently. The intertextual links between the runic microtexts and other sacred texts of Old Germanic mythology, especially the eddaic mythological poems are given. The semantic and linguistic-cultural links between the runic symbols and the units of other sacred symbols in the Old Germanic linguoculture are demonstrated. The runic cultural pattern is analyzed as the integrated structure representing the world view of the Old Germanics.

Keywords

• old icelandic rune-poem, runes, shaped token, intertextuality, old germanic linguoculture, cultural pattern, the poetic edda, old germanic paganism, old norse language