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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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Temenos, 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" [PDF]
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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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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ASH: A Multi-Scale, Multi-Theory Modeling Program. [PDF]
J Comput ChemASH is a Python‐based computational chemistry software for multi‐scale and multi‐theory computations (including QM/MM and ONIOM) and MD simulations. The program is designed for flexible workflows of molecular and biomolecular systems, allowing geometry optimizations, numerical frequencies, high‐level thermochemistry, MD and free‐energy simulations, NEB
Bjornsson R.
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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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Handbook of Norse mythology [PDF]
Choice 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
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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