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Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions /
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions explores the traditions of two fascinating and contiguous cultures in north-western Europe. History regularly brought these two peoples into contact, most prominently with the viking invasion of Ireland. In the famous Second Battle of Mag Tuired...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2021
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| Colección: | Early medieval North Atlantic.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Emily Lyle
- The nature of the Fomoiri : the dark other in the medieval Irish imagination / John Carey
- Tuatha De and Fomoiri in Cath Maige Tuired / Elizabeth A. Gray
- Exploring Cath Maige Tuired through the concept of hybridity / Ina Tuomala
- How time flies in the Cath Maige Tuired / Joseph Falaky Nagy
- The idols of the pagan Irish in the medieval literary imagination / Alexandra Bergholm
- Myth as a historical resource : the case of Orgain Denna Ríg (The destruction of Dinn Ríg) / Kevin Murray
- Hagiography as political documentation : the case of Betha Beraigh (the life of St. Berach) / Ksenia Kudenko
- Baldr's Achilles' heel? about the Scandinavian three-god B-bracteates / Karen Bek-Pedersen
- The cult of Óinn in the early Scandinavian warrior aristocracy / Joshua Rood
- Myth to history in Saxo / Morten Warmind
- The Scylding dynasty in Saxo and Beowulf as disguised theogony / Emily Lyle
- Loki the slandered god? Selective omission of Skaldic citations in Snorri Sturluson's Edda / James Parkhouse
- Ymir, Baldr, and the grand narrative arc of mythological history / Jonas Wellendorf.