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Chapter 3 Far from Rome? Exploring Religion and Syncretism in Medieval Norse Greenland

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Behind Heathendom: Archaeological Studies of Old Norse Religion

Scottish Archaeological Journal, 2005
This paper offers a synthesis of a large body of research into the "Old Norse religion" which has been conducted as part of a multidisciplinary research projekt - Vagar till Midgard - Roads to Midgard. Evidence for Pre-Christian Norse religion is drawn from Medieval Icelandic literature, place-names and the archaeology of ritual sites.
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Old Norse and Germanic Religion

2011
The article is a critical overview of archaeological research on Old Norse and Germanic ...
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MYTHOLOGY AND PRE-CHRISTIAN NORSE RELIGIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH TERRY A. GUNNELL

Scandia Journal of Medieval Norse Studies, 2023
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Chapter Six. The Warrior In Old Norse Religion

2011
This chapter investigates the role played by eschatology in the religious beliefs and politics of the ruling elites of Scandinavia in the late Viking Period. The focus is on the idea of Oðinn welcoming his heroes in Valholl, and on the cultural and political circumstances under which this myth functioned as ideology.
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Did a Little Birdie Really Tell Odin? Applying Theory of Mind to Old Norse Religion

Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2021
Abstract Theory of mind, the theory that humans attribute mental states to others, has become increasingly influential in the Cognitive Science of Religion in recent years, due to several papers which posit that supernatural agents, like gods, demons, and the dead, are accredited greater than normal knowledge and awareness.
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Roads to Midgard - Old Norse religion in long-term perspectives

Scottish Archaeological Journal, 2002
Old Norse religion is usually regarded as one of the best known pre-Christian religions in Europe, due to the rich Icelandic literature from the 13th century. In combination with place-names, references in Latin and Arabic sources and later folklore, the Icelandic literature has been used to reconstruct a distinct pagan religion for Northern Europe ...
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The Religion of the Norse Tribes: No Official Priesthood

2017
It was noted by both Caesar and Tacitus that the German tribes had no Druids. Unlike the Celts, they did not have an official priesthood that organized festivals and sacrifices and presided over the courts. The German tribes were religious—they were fearful of magic and sorcery, and they believed that there were supernatural creatures in the dark woods
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Narratives of encountering religions: On the Christianization of the Norse around AD 900–1000

Norwegian Archaeological Review, 1996
The article presents two contradictive narratives of the Viking Age and the process of conversion from heathendom to Christendom in western Norway. The narratives are based on different applications of — and attitudes towards — the written records from the above mentioned periods and theories of cultural conflicts and change.
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Prolonged drying trend coincident with the demise of Norse settlement in southern Greenland

Science Advances, 2022
Boyang Zhao, I S Castañeda, Jeff Salacup   +2 more
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