Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region : Austmarr as a northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 AD /

Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has functioned as a northern *mare nostrum* -- a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, SÃmi, Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology explores the networks among tho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Willson, Kendra (Editor ), Frog, 1972- (Editor ), Bertell, Maths (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies ; 11.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Baltic Sea > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : looking across the Baltic Sea and over linguistic fences / Frog, Kendra Willson, and Maths Bertell
  • section 1. Mental maps. The northern part of the Ocean in the eyes of ancient geographers / Aleksandr Podossinov
  • Austmarr on the mental map of medieval Scandinavians / Tatjana Jackson
  • The connection between geographical space and collective memory in Jómsvíkinga saga / Sirpa Aalto
  • section 2. Mobility. Rune carvers traversing Austmarr? / Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt
  • Polish noble families and noblemen of Scandinavian origin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries : the case of the Awdańcy family: by which route did they come to Poland and why? / Leszek Słupecki
  • A medieval trade in female slaves from the north along the Volga / Jukka Korpela
  • section 3. Language. Ahti on the Nydam strap-ring : on the possibility of Finnic elements in runic inscriptions / Kendra Willson
  • Low German and Finnish revisited / Mikko Bentlin
  • section 4. Myth and religion formation. Mythic logic and meta-discursive practices in the Scandinavian and Baltic regions / Lauri Harvilahti
  • The artificial bride on both sides of the Gulf of Finland : the Golden Maiden in Finno-Karelian and Estonian folk poetry / Karolina Kouvola
  • Local Sámi bear ceremonialism in a Circum-Baltic perspective / Maths Bertell
  • Mythologies in transformation : symbolic transfer, hybridisation, and creolisation in the Circum-Baltic arena (illustrated through the changing roles of *Tīwaz, *Ilma, and Óinn, the fishing adventure of the thunder god, and a Finno-Karelian creolisation of North Germanic religion) / Frog.

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