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The Virtual Rebirth of Paganism

Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2023
This article begins by examining how two very popular massively multiplayer onlinegames, Dark Age of Camelot (Mythic Entertainment, US 2001) and Age of Conan(Funcom, NO 2008), manage complex social and cultural structures.
Sims Bainbridge, William
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The Power of Religion / Religion and Power

, 2023
How does the powerful effect that religion has on public and personal life relate to the various spheres of our culture? Is the relationship between power and religion always negative or can religion also affect individuals and societies positively? This

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Child abandonment as an indicator of Christianization in the Nordic countries

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
In the Nordic countries, child abandonment seems to have been a commonly accepted social tradition until the acceptance of Christianity. When Christian influences reached the Far North, this old practice was gradually criminalized.
Juha Pentikäinen
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The Norse landnám on the North Atlantic islands: an environmental impact assessment. [PDF]

, 2005
The Norse colonisation or landnám of the North Atlantic islands of the Faroes, Iceland, and Greenland from the ninth century AD onwards provides opportunities to examine human environmental impacts on ‘pristine’ landscapes on an environmental gradient ...
Simpson, IA, Lawson, Ian, McGovern, Thomas H., Sveinbjarnardóttir, Gudrún, McGovern, T. H., Lawson, IT, Skidmore, P., Simpson, I. A., Skidmore, Peter, Panagiotakopulu, E, Panagiotakopulu, Eva, Edwards, Kevin J., Buckland, Paul C., Sveinbjarnardottir, G, Church, Mike J., Edwards, KJ, Buckland, P. C., McGovern, TH, Church, M. J., Lawson, I., Sveinbjarnardóttir, G., Church, MJ, Simpson, Ian A., Dugmore, Andrew J., Dugmore, AJ, Skidmore, P, Panagiotakopulu, E.; id_orcid, Buckland, PC, Church, M, Dugmore, A. J., Edwards, K. J., Lawson, Ian; id_orcid   +31 more
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Der Runen-Stein von Rök und Snorri Sturluson - oder 'Wie aussagekräftig sind unsere Quellen zur Religionsgeschichte der Wikingerzeit?'

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
The article contributes to the discussion on source criticism within the research field of Old Norse religion. It examines the common assumption that archaeological sources are always to prefer above written sources from the Middle Ages where the Viking ...
Preben Meulengracht Sørensen
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Expose an exhibition : How Norse religion and early Christianization is exhibited

, 2013
This thesis is a study of how Norse religion and early Christianization is presented in three Swedish museum contexts. Empirical studies of the exhibitions relating to religion have been conducted at The Historical Museum in Stockholm, The Museum of ...
Eklind Schultz, Frida
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New Focus on Retrospective Methods. Resuming Methodological Dis-cussions: Case Studies from Northern Europe. Edited by Eldar Heide & Karen Bek-Petersen.

Collegium Medievale, 2016
The present anthology is rooted in collaboration that began at the 14th International Saga Conference in Uppsala in 2009, where Eldar Heide discussed the need for greater methodological awareness in studies dealing with the use of post-medieval material ...
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
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Norse mythology – Culture? Fairy tales? Religion? [PDF]

, 2018
Bacheloroppgave, grunnskolelærerutdanning, 2018.Norsk: Norrøn mytologi er en del av Norges historie og kulturarv, men i hvilken grad blir den forstått som en religion?
Forseth, Kjersti
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Syncretism in Nordic folk medicine: critical periods during pregnancy

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1969
This article explores the traditions concerning the critical periods during pregnancy when the foetus is exposed to the risk of suffering serious injuries. There is a good deal of such traditions in more recent Nordic and European folklore.
Lily Weiser-Aall
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