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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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A glimpse of the heathen Norse in Lincolnshire [PDF]

, 2017
A runic inscription on a local lead spindle-whorl found near the coastal site of Saltfleetby in Lincolnshire provides exceptional evidence, not only of the maintainence of the Norse language and Norse runic writing traditions in the early 11th century ...
Hines, John
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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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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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The Ambiguous Boeslunde Figure

Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2021
This article presents a unique female figure found in Boeslunde, Zealand, Denmark. It stands at just 1.5 cm and is made of gilded silver with remarkably refined details.
Trine Louise Borake
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Beyond belief : the crisis of faith in A.S. Byatt's fiction

Journal of English Studies, 2012
A. S. Byatt’s Ragnarök (2011), a retelling of the Norse myth of the downfall of the gods and the end of the world, would seem to be a departure from her fictional narratives set in the nineteenth or twentieth century.
Jennifer Anne Johnson
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Revenants in Old Norse literature as embodied memory

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2020
Beings that come from the past into the present could be an example par excellence for memory studies. Revenants are an outstanding phenomenon of Old Norse literature that has been researched from many points of view: e.g.
Marie Novotná
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Horizontale und vertikale Achsen in der vorchristlichen skandinavischen Kosmologie

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
The article analyses the cosmology of Old Norse religion before the arrival of Christianity to Scandinavia and strives to illuminate the image of the world upheld in this context on the basis of the scarce source material that is available.
Jens Schjødt
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Personal piety in Nordic heathenism

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
Usually, Nordic heathenism is thought of as a fairy-tale or as an impersonal, collective event. Sacrifice (blót) and ethics appear to be the main facts. Was there anything at all like piety, and could it, in this case, be spoken of as personal?
Åke Ström
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Old Customs

Temenos, 2018
Although they highlight the Norse (religious) term siðr ‘custom’ and its cognates, some researchers of pre-Christian Scandinavia suggest that the concept of religion involves a Christocentric discourse and should be used cautiously, or even only for ...
Andreas Nordberg
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