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“But in the Thunder, I Still Hear Thor”: The Character Athelstan as a Narrative Focal Point in the Series Vikings

Religions, 2021
This article explores the way the character Athelstan serves as a narrative focal point in the popular television series Vikings. Using this series as its main case study, it addresses the question of the ways in which the character functions as a ...
Margaret Steenbakker
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'Shadow' and paradoxes of darkness in Old English and Old Norse poetic language [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis confronts, explores, and attempts to meaningfully interpret a surprising nexus of stimulating cruces and paradoxes in Old English poetry and prose and Old Norse skaldic and Eddic poetry.
Missuno, Filip
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Magical Music in Old Norse Literature

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996
No society ever existed without performing music, and most cultures display many variants of music. Music also played and still plays an important part in different religious rites. From the days of yore, music has been intimately connected with the cult,
Britt-Mari Näsström
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The Necklace as a Divine Symbol and as a Sign of Dignity in the Old Norse Conception

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996
Neck-rings are frequent in finds from the Early Bronze Age, ca. 1000-550 B.C. Far later necklaces are mentioned in the Old Icelandic literature. For instance, thegoddess Freyja was the owner of the Brisingamen necklace, according to Snorri Sturluson in ...
Marianne Görman
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The Politics of Sacrifice

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
In William Blake’s The Book of Ahania (1795), the figure Fuzon is killed by his tyrant father Urizen before being sacrificed in a pseudo-Crucifixion scene.
Sharon Choe
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Att bekämpa Ragnarök

DIN, 2023
Nordic Animism has become one of the more significant new theologies within the modern Pagan and Heathen community. Based on a counter-reading of earlier, often colonial, interpretations of religions that was perceived to belong to a more primitive form ...
Fredrik Gregorius
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The Question of Ancient Scandinavian Cultic Buildings: with Particular Reference to Old Norse hof

Temenos, 2009
The article focuses on the question of ancient Scandinavian cultic buildings, with particular reference to the concept Old Norse hof. I survey the semantics of this term in written sources, in poetic traditions, in the Sagas of the Icelanders and in ...
OLOF SUNDQVIST
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Sjiele sacrifices, Odin treasures and Saami graves?

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1987
This paper presents archaeological findings described as Saami metal deposits. These well-known "Finds from Lapp Places of Sacrifice", objects from the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages, were mostly found in northern Sweden.
Inger Zachrisson
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Tracing Old Norse Cosmology : The world tree, middle earth, and the sun in archaeological perspectives

, 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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Opening address at the Symposium on Encounters between Religions in Old Nordic Times and on Cultic Place-Names, arranged by the Donner Institute 19-21 August 1987

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
This paper broadly discusses the topics presented at the symposium.
Carl-Martin Edsman
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