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Race, Religion and the Medieval Norse Discovery of America

open access: yesReligions
In 1837, Danish philologist Carl Christian Rafn published Antiquitates Americanæ, which introduced Americans to the Vinland sagas—medieval texts that suggest that Norse explorers “discovered” North America around the turn of the first millennium.
Zachary J. Melton
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Cohort profile: Norwegian survey of health and ageing (NORSE) [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Purpose The Norwegian Survey of Health and Ageing (NORSE) was set up to provide internationally comparable data on ageing in Norway, which includes measured intrinsic capacity and cognitive function.
Bjørn Heine Strand   +7 more
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Do Thor and Odin Have Bodies? Superperception and Divine Intervention among the Old Norse Gods

open access: yesReligions, 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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Religion in the Viking Age Moral Economy

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022
: On those rare occasions when Old Norse religion and morality are set alongside one another, the notion of a non-Christian morality is typically dismissed or Old Norse religion is viewed as actively holding back moral progress.
Declan Taggart
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Exploring Religious Ritual Frameworks in the Oral Performance of the Old Norse, Eddic-Style Praise Poems Hákonar­mál, Eiríksmál, and Hrafnsmál

open access: yesScripta Islandica, 2023
The idea that Old Norse poetry derives from an oral tradition is commonly accepted in contemporary research. However, more detailed considerations of the consequences of this notion for our understanding of specific poems and their context are seldomly ...
Simon Nygaard
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The study of the Christianization of the Nordic countries: some reflections

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
The focus of this paper is some problems that appear in the study of the transition from old Norse religion to Christianity, which requires further reflection.
Ragnhild Finnestad
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Formes de mystique dans le Nord préchrétien

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1970
In this paper, the author explores mysticism found in a Nordic context, exemplified by different forms of mystic experiences in old Norse religion described in old Scandinavian poetry and literature.
Åke Ström
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Old Nordic and Christian elements in Saami ideas about the realm of the dead

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1987
The fact that a word or concept has been borrowed from outside does not mean that the original content, the original ideas which the loan word in question expresses, have also been adopted.
Olof Pettersson
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Berserker und Erzbischof: Bedeutung und Entwicklung des altnordischen Berserkerbegriffes

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1982
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Åke Ström
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Der Runenstein von Tanum - ein religionsgeschichtliches Denkmal aus urnordischer Zeit

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
The article offers a critical analysis of the inscriptions on three runic stones: the Rök stone from the early Viking Era (800-820), the stone from Stentoften (550-580/699) and the stone from Tanum (200-500).
Ottar Grønvik
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