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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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Children of Baldur: Understanding the Construction of Masculinity within Göthicism and the Manhem Society

Correspondences, 2022
The article focuses on how a nineteenth-century Swedish nationalistic movement, Göthicism, understood masculinity. The primary example used is Manhemsförbundet (the Manhem Society), an initiatory and educational organization active between 1815–1823 ...
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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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
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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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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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The King is dead’: The thanatology of kings in the Old Norse synoptic histories of Norway, 1035-1161 [PDF]

, 2005
The Old Norse Synoptic Histories of Norway can make a valuable contribution to thanatology (the study of attitudes towards death) and the history of medieval thought.
Salvucci, Giovanna
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Women's Leadership as a Driver of Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprises Sustainability and Green Transition: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study combines a bibliometric analysis and a systematic literature review (SLR) to provide a comprehensive understanding of women's leadership and entrepreneurship within small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in the context of sustainability and the green transition.
Adriana Dima, Andreea Ileana Zamfir, Cosmin Dobrin, Monica Triculescu, Sorina Ioana Mişu, Ana Daria Pantelimon   +5 more
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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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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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