Ritual and Hierarchy in Old Norse Mythology
Religionsvidenskabeligt 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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REVISITING NORSE MYTHOLOGY: THE CASE OF A.S. BYATT’S RAGNARÖK [PDF]
Studia 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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Buried in water, burdened by nature-Resilience carried the Iron Age people through Fimbulvinter. [PDF]
PLoS 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]
هنر 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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The Damaged Bone and the Lone Mushroom
Religionsvidenskabeligt 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
Between, 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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RE-WRITING OLD NORSE MYTHOLOGY – SIRI PETTERSEN’S "ODINSBARN"
Studia 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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Reinventing the Yggdrasil: Hilma af Klint and Political Aesthetics
InFormation: 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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Do Thor and Odin Have Bodies? Superperception and Divine Intervention among the Old Norse Gods
Religions, 2019 In Old Norse mythology, gods like Freyja, Odin, and Thor are usually characterized as human-like creatures: they walk and ride animals, eat, grow old, and even die.
Declan Taggart
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In Search of a National Epic: The use of Old Norse myths in Tolkien's vision of Middle-earth
Approaching Religion, 2014 In this article some aspects of Tolkien’s work with regard to his relationship to folklore and nationalism are presented. It is also argued, contrary to Lauri Honko’s view of literary epics, that pre-literary sources constitute a problem for the creators
Tommy Kuusela
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