Shaping the Rings of the Scandinavian Fellowship: Festschrift in Honour of Ērika Sausverde

Ērika Sausverde and her Scandinavian Rings 7
Tabula Gratulatoria 15
M. J. Driscoll / Herdís & Ólína: The Poetry of Everyday Life 21
Aurelijus Vijūnas / Problems in Mythological Reconstruction: Thor, Thrym, and the Story of the Hammer over the Course of Time 39
Ieva Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė / Dreaming the Hammer Back: On Teodoras Bieliackinas’s Translation of "Þrymskviða" 61
Ugnius Mikučionis. The Hero and his Values 87
Rasa Ruseckienė / That Rune Will Unlock Time’s Labyrinth...: Old Norse Themes and Motifs in George Mackay Brown’s Poetry 113
Ivars Orehovs. Den kultur- och litteraturhistoriska gestalten i den lettiska novellen "Svētā Briģita" ("Heliga Birgitta") av Jānis Ezeriņš 137
David Östlund / Peaceableness as a Weapon in Wars of Swedology 147
Jurij Kusmenko / Fornisländsk litteratur, genetik och historisk demografi om samisk-nordiska tidiga kontakter 183
Anatoly Liberman / An Etymological Dog Kennel, or Dog Eat Dog: Icelandic "setja upp við dogg", Engl. "to lie doggo", Engl. "dog", and Engl. "it's raining cats and dogs" 201
Axel Holvoet, Birutė Spraunienė & Asta Laugalienė / Some Implications for Ērika: Implicatives in Danish, Finnish and Lithuanian 215
Loreta Vaicekauskienė / Driving Forces behind Language Change. Does Danish Theory Hold up in Lithuania? 241
Contributing authors 273