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Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology
2021Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology details how Viking Age Icelanders, migrating from Scandinavia to a new and volcanically active environment, used Old Norse mythology to understand and negotiate the hazards of the island. These pre-Christian myths recorded in medieval Iceland expound an indigenous Icelandic theory on volcanism that revolves around the ...
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Old Norse Mythology and Ideology (and Entertainment)
2021Abstract According an argument by Georges Dumézil, Ideological use of the mythology may go back to Indo-European times, and it certainly goes back to Viking and medieval Scandinavia, where a “ruler ideology” can be discerned within it. In early modern Denmark and Sweden, the mythology served to create great national pasts, and later it ...
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2018
The thesis focuses on Old Norse culture and uses predominantly Old Norse source material. Comparative material, especially Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Classical, is, however, employed when this is thought to be relevant.
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The thesis focuses on Old Norse culture and uses predominantly Old Norse source material. Comparative material, especially Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Classical, is, however, employed when this is thought to be relevant.
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Old Norse Mythology as Sacred Narrative
2021Abstract This chapter presents a case study of one myth that we have from pictorial sources in the Viking Age, from poems almost certainly composed in the Viking Age, and from thirteenth-century sources, namely the encounter between the god Þórr (Thor) and his cosmic enemy, the World serpent, a beast that encircles the earth, in the deep
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Informed by the ancients: Norse mythology and psychotherapy
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 1999The myth of Kvasir is presented, in part. Through hermeneutic discourse, a case is made that the ancient Norseman had an understanding of the psychotherapeutic arts which finds parallel in contemporary thought. The myth evidences the distinction between: (1) the offering of needed information; and (2) the facilitation of personal, growth‐oriented ...
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Old Norse Mythology and Learned Medieval Speculation
2021Abstract This chapter argues that the myths survived the conversion to Christianity primarily because of two medieval intellectual theories, demonization (the gods had just been minions of Satan) and euhemerism (the gods had originally been actual human beings whom later generations had come to venerate, thus making them into historical ...
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