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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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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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, 2021 Old Norse Mythology—Comparative Perspectives
The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2019openaire +1 more source