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Imagining Vínland : George Mackay Brown and the literature of the New World [PDF]

, 2013
This essay looks at George Mackay Brown's novel of 1992, Vinland, in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century “foundation myth” literature inspired by the Viking discovery of North America as originally recounted in medieval Icelandic sagas. This
Arnold, Martin
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Berserker und Erzbischof: Bedeutung und Entwicklung des altnordischen Berserkerbegriffes

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1982
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Åke Ström
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Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon : an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding [PDF]

, 2017
Acknowledgements We would like to thank Laura Whitehouse, John Carman, Oliver Grimm, Julie Lund, Bjørnar Olsen, two anonymous reviewers, and the editor for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper.
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Der Runenstein von Tanum - ein religionsgeschichtliches Denkmal aus urnordischer Zeit

Scripta 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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Gerhard Schøning som religionshistoriker: Odins rolle i hans historiske forfatterskap

Teologisk Tidsskrift, 2023
Historikeren Gerhard Schøning hevdet at den norrøne overleveringens flertydige omtale av Odin skjulte ikke mindre enn tre ulike historiske skikkelser som hadde gitt seg ut for å være, og blitt akseptert som, den norrøne guddommen.
Håkon Evju
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Weber and Coyote : polytheism as a practical attitude [PDF]

, 2018
This document is the Accepted Manuscript of an article accepted for publication in Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions. Under embargo until 9 September 2018.
Larvor, Brendan
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Remembering Heathen Women in Medieval Icelandic Literature

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2021
: Several Icelandic texts from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries depict female characters from the pre-Christian past. In both poetry and prose, these heathen women are often portrayed as recalling the old, pre ...
Ann Sheffield
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The Relation between the two Phenomenological Categories Initiation and Sacrifice as Exemplified by the Norse Myth of Óðinn on the Tree

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1993
Many articles have been devoted to the Old Norse myth which relates how Odin was hanging from a tree for nine nights without being offered food or drink. The question we are going to investigate here is, as mentioned, whether we are facing a sacrifice or
Jens Schjødt
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Altskandinavische Opferrituale und das Problem der
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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1993
The article discusses Old Norse sacrifical rituals and their practice in Scandinavia. The scarcity of research material in this special field raises methodological problems: how to interpret and understand rituals that are no longer practiced, which ...
Anders Hultgård
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Reviving Pagan Spirituality: A Manifesto

Religions, 2022
Numerous contemporary neopagan movements are attempts to revive or reconstruct ancient religious belief and practice. For instance, the worship of the ancient Norse gods has been restored to Iceland by the Asatru Fellowship.
Keith Parsons
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