The Echo of Creation: Parallels between Old Norse Cosmogony and Eschatology [PDF]
, 2021 The article explores the idea of an echo, both literal and structural, that connects Old Norse cosmogony and eschatology. The motif of a bellowing sound or cry appears in cosmogony in the figure of Ymir, “Crier”, who is killed by the Æsir, and from his ...
Kozák, Jan
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Fictional pagans, imaginary sorcerers, literary alterities: Icelandic sagas as historiographical sources and their representation of the pre-Christian world [PDF]
, 2016 Mi objetivo aquí es indagar cómo debemos entender la literatura de las sagas, textos en prosa islandeses de la Edad Media; el cénit de la producción de las sagas ocurrió entre la segunda mitad del siglo XIII y la primera mitad del XIV.
Barreiro, Santiago Francisco
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Le « partenariat attentif » de la cosmologie islandaise : Le rôle des morts dans les événements génomique et spiritualiste [PDF]
, 2005 L’article articule une analyse comparative de trois terrains de la société islandaise : le projet de fichage génomique deCode Genetics à la fin du vingtième siècle, l’émergence du spiritualisme au début du siècle et les rituels médiumniques des groupes ...
Pons, Christophe
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“Þur sarriþu þursa trutin”: monster-fighting and medicine in early medieval Scandinavia [PDF]
, 2009 This paper seeks evidence among our extensive Scandinavian mythological texts for an area which they seldom discuss explicitly: the conceptualisation and handling of illness and healing. Its core evidence is two runic texts (the Canterbury Rune-Charm and
Hall, Alaric
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Theonyms, Alignment and Social Stance-Taking : From Bronze-Age Borrowings to Baby Names [PDF]
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Frog, Mr.
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Pre-Modern Nordic Memories in their Literary Contexts [PDF]
, 2023 The study of memory has become a central field in saga scholarship in recent years. The present article deals with a number of remarkable mnemonic phenomena in Old Norse-Icelandic narratives. It contextualizes them in biblical, classical, and more modern
Glauser, Jürg
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Images from Old Norse Mythology and Legend on Anglo-Scandinavian and Scandinavian Stone Sculpture and some Wood Objects [PDF]
, 2014 The objective of this thesis was to survey the various stone and wood monuments (that include images from Old Norse mythology and legend) in the north of England and Scandinavia during the so-called Viking Age.
Braithwaite-Westoby, Manu
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