Husar A. Verbal Means of Designating Old Scandinavian Mythic Concepts in Modern Swedish and English Song Discourse

This thesis provides the results of integrative analysis of language means of Old Norse mythic concepts in present-day English and Swedish song discourses. The paper exercises the fundamental assumption that a language as a sign system functionsaccording to the universal mechanisms thus turning into a creative tool. Old Norse mythic concepts are identified as inchoative formations, around which alternative worlds and respective worldviews are developed in the context of pop culture of the XX-XXIcenturies. These mythic concepts, embodied by means of English and Swedish languages, outline the desired state of affairs in the projected realities and offer value and behavioural “navigation coordinates” for a representative of a particular subculture (both for musician / lyricist and for addressee–consumer of musical-verbal construct).