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Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives : Origins, Changes & Interactions.
Consisting of more than 70 papers written by scholars concerned with pre-Christian Norse religion, the articles discuss subjects such as archaeology, art history, historical archaeology, history, history of ideas, theological history, literature, onomastics, Scandinavian languages, and Scandinavian...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Nordic Academic Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Copyright; Contents; The conference and its context; Old Norse religion; worldview and cosmology; Can archaeologists study prehistoric cosmology?; Narrative worlds, human environments, and poets; Centrality in Old Norse mental landscapes; A world of stone; Bound animal bodies; The imperative way; Homogeneity and heterogeneity in Old Norse cosmology; The gendering of death in eddic cosmology; The Askr and Embla myth in a comparative perspective; The edges of the Old Norse world-view; Hanging on the world tree; ritual and religious practice; Rituals, witnesses, and sagas.
- Iron in the making
- Technology and symbolismThe origins of Old Norse ritual and religion in European perspective; How to sort out ritual from context of practice; Escaping the allure of meaning; Myth and metallurgy; Humans and gods interacting at Augusta Treverorum in Late Antiquity; Performing death; The Roman Iron Age in perspectives and perceptions; Harnessing the hunger; Wolves, serpents, and birds; The horse and its role in Icelandic burial practices, mythology, and society; The heroized dead; Cemeteries and ritual meals; The universe container.
- Scandinavian burial rites on the southern Baltic coastGrinding processes and reproductive metaphors; Spinning seiðr; The concept of shamanism in Old Norse religion from a sociological point of view; ritual sites and images; What's in a name?; Bridging mythology and belief; Ornaments, ornamentation, and female gender; Among trees, bones, and stones; My home is my castle; Ancient building cults; Odin and Mithras; Thor's hammer in Norway; The temple in Rhetra-Riedegost; Parchim-Löddigsee
- late Slavonic temple and trading site; Pre-Christian cult at Arkona; "Til holts ek gekk ..."
- Rituals and powerRitual building and ritual space; The Uppåkra beaker; Guldgubber; myth and memory; Erfikvæði
- myth, ritual, elegy; Myth and the psychology of memory; The generic aspect of the Eddic style; Textual figures of Óðinn; Theories, explanatory models and terminology; Mythology as a mnemonic and literary device in Vatnsdoela saga; Poetry and practice; Where does Old Norse religion end?; Archaeology and sacrifice; Misconceptions concerning paganism and folklore in medieval art; Völuspá and the tree of life; On wind and waves; Potentialities of Loki.
- Interpretations of Ynglingasaga and the MabinogiLove among gods and men; Past memories; Ancient mounds for new graves; Ásgarðr, Miðgarðr, and Útgarðr; What shall we do with Reinaert the Fox?; Heroes, kings, and gods; The advent of the esteemed horseman-sovereign; reception and present-day use; The use and abuse of Old Norse religion; Kings, cowpies, and creation; The "Allgermanische Heidnische Front" and Old Norse religion; The organism within; From queen to sorcerer; Drudgery dwarf; The measures of Old Norse religion in long-term perspective.