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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Restoring the Fantasy Literature to Its Former Popularity with the Advanced Digital Technology and Norse Mythology in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy [PDF]
International Journal of Contents, 2013 Noh-shin Lee, Emanuel Pastreich
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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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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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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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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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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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Rechtsextremismus – Seine Bezüge auf die germanische Kultur und die nordisch-germanische Mythologie [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2023 In the review article is the book by Georg Schuppener disscused under the title “The shadows of the ancestors. The reception of Germanic culture on the German-speaking far right”.
Anna Gondek
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