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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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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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The Role of Rulers in the Winding Up of the Old Norse Religion [PDF]
Numen, 2021 Abstract It is a common opinion in research that the Scandinavians changed religion during the second half of the Viking Age, that is, ca. 950–1050/1100 CE. During this period, Christianity replaced the Old Norse religion. When describing this transition in recent studies, the concept “Christianization” is often applied.
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Tracing Old Norse Cosmology : The world tree, middle earth, and the sun in archaeological perspectives [PDF]
, 2014 An archaeological investigation of three cosmological elements in Old Norse religion, namely the world tree, Midgard and the sun. The changing character of these elements are investigated via different forms of material representations from the Bronze ...
Andrén, Anders,
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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 Quellen
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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