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REVISITING NORSE MYTHOLOGY: THE CASE OF A.S. BYATT’S RAGNARÖK [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023
In 2011, British author and Booker-prize winner A. S. Byatt publishes Ragnarök, her rewriting of the Norse myth about the death of the gods. Seen through the eyes of a thin child who is forced to witness the terrors of World War II, the story and ...
Cristina Mihaela NISTOR
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The Materiality of Myth

open access: yesTemenos, 2019
The vivid presence of material objects in Scandinavian cosmology, as preserved in the Old Norse myths, carries underexplored traces of belief systems and the material experience of Iron Age Scandinavia (400–1000 CE). This paper proposes an archaeological
Sara Ann Knutson
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RE-WRITING OLD NORSE MYTHOLOGY – SIRI PETTERSEN’S "ODINSBARN"

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2017
Re-writing Old Norse Mythology – Siri Pettersen’s Odinsbarn. The article focuses on one of the contemporary Norwegian novels that re-write Old Norse mythology.
Cristina VIȘOVAN
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Ritual and Hierarchy in Old Norse Mythology

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
: Within Old Norse mythological narratives, the presence or absence of ritual establishes hierarchy. As exemplified in death ritual, ritual orders the two major classes of mythological beings, placing the Æsir (gods) above the jǫtnar (“giants”).
John Lindow
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Buried in water, burdened by nature-Resilience carried the Iron Age people through Fimbulvinter. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Levänluhta is a unique archaeological site with the remains of nearly a hundred Iron Age individuals found from a water burial in Ostrobothnia, Finland.
Markku Oinonen   +15 more
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A Critical Study to the Attitude of the Devil's Post-Knowledge in Dominating the Four Elements in the Shahnameh and Norse Mythology (with Emphasis on the Preserved Version in the British Museum [PDF]

open access: yesهنر اسلامی, 2023
According to Zarvani's belief, Ahriman and Ahuramazda have two inconsistent and twin bases .They have to present a series of activities, superior power and knowledge to manage their own world affairs in order to obtain Zarvan God's position.
Abdollah Babaahmadian   +3 more
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Handbook of Norse mythology [PDF]

open access: yesChoice Reviews Online, 2001
Authoritative, comprehensive reference incorporating the latest research on tales, literary and oral sources, and the broad-reaching cultural legacy of Norse mythology. The book describes the pagan origins of Scandinavia, the interaction between the Vikings and other Europeans, and the concept of time in Norse mythology, and gives a dictionary of ...
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The Damaged Bone and the Lone Mushroom

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
: The article carries out a comparative exercise focusing on the Norse myth about Þórr slaughtering and then reviving his goats. It has sometimes been argued that the myth is a borrowing from a Christian legend about Saint Germanus.
Karen Bek-Pedersen
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Beyond the Wall. Renaissance Embodiments of the Old Norse god Freyr

open access: yesBetween, 2022
In his Gespräch über die Poesie («Athenäum», III, 1800), Fr. Schlegel reworked some of the ideas put forward years earlier by J. G. Herder – in his controversy with J.
Marco Battaglia
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Reinventing the Yggdrasil: Hilma af Klint and Political Aesthetics

open access: yesInFormation: Nordic Journal of Art and Research, 2018
The Yggdrasil, the holy tree of Norse mythology, is central to Hilma af Klint’s series of paintings from 1913/15: Tree of Knowledge. As with the Biblical Tree of Knowledge from Eden that is echoed in Christ’s cross, the Yggdrasil allows for the salvation
Jadranka Ryle
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