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Weapons in Legal Rituals: Between Myth and Reality
Viking, 2021 This article seeks to explore the significance of weapons in legal rituals mentioned in sources, such as sagas and laws. Similarities in the phrasing of various types of sources give reason to believe that it is possible to determine certain uses of ...
Anne Irene Riisøy
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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Loki's gender fluidity and bisexuality in Norse mythology and in modern adaptations [PDF]
, 2022 openIn Norse mythology, Loki was seen as a fluid entity who had the ability to change his gender. This dissertation will analyse how modern productions have adapted this characteristic of his – he is often portrayed as genderfluid, i.e.
MARTINELLI, ALICE
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Cosmogony through division in Romanian and world mythology
Studii de Istorie a Filosofiei Româneşti, 2023 In this paper, an interpretation is attempted of the Romanian myth, “Legenda despre zidirea lumii”. Parallels are drawn with tales such as Genesis, the Babylonian narrative of Marduk constructing the world from Tiamat, and the Norse story of Odin ...
Robin Wildt Hansen
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Norse mythology in M.L. Kiser’s “Tree of Life” [PDF]
, 2019 This research discussed the depiction of Norse mythology and personification in M.L. Kiser’s “Tree of Life”. The aims of this research were to give a depictionof the Norse mythology about tree of life and to analyze the personification dealing with ...
Octofani, Bertha Praditya
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The ILESE project: Building an evidentiary database about students' use of learning environments
Review of Education, Volume 14, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract This paper presents the progress of a unique study of significant scope. The industry‐funded innovative Learning Environments and Student Experience (ILESE) study asked two questions: In what ways has more than two decades of learning spaces research culminated in readily used evidence that meets the needs of those involved in providing ...
W. Imms +5 more
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Family Process, Volume 65, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Drawing on insights from critical Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, and critical whiteness studies, the authors examine how settler colonial and white supremacist ideologies may continue to structure their own family therapy theorizing and practice, with particular attention to the concept and practice of sociocultural attunement ...
Olga Smoliak, Carmen Knudson‐Martin
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Valkyries and shieldmaidens : Sex and gender in Old Norse mythology [PDF]
, 2022 Abstrakt This essay is about how I investigated the valkyries and shieldmaidens gender in Old Norse mythology. The starting point of investigating valkyries, from a gender perspective, lies within that "gender", socially, can be reconstructed from ...
Sunesson, Ellinor
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Ricœur’s Historical Intentionality and the Great Goddess Freyja
Temenos, 2020 The main question in this article concerns whether hermeneutic phenomenology as a methodology can address some of the problems and critiques raised in the study of religions. Inspired by Gilhus’s proposal in her article ‘The Phenomenology of Religion and
Ane Faugstad Aaro
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