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Ricœur’s Historical Intentionality and the Great Goddess Freyja

Temenos, 2020
The main question in this article concerns whether hermeneutic phenomenology as a methodology can address some of the problems and critiques raised in the study of religions. Inspired by Gilhus’s proposal in her article ‘The Phenomenology of Religion and
Ane Faugstad Aaro
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Scandinavian-Saami religious connections in the history of research

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
The religions of Scandinavians and Saamis have, for decades of scholarship, functioned as sources of analogies to explain elements in one another. For the study of Saami religion answers to questions about origins were sought in Scandinavian religion ...
Håkan Rydving
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Pagan myth in confrontation with Christianity: Skírnismál and Genesis

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
Skírnismál is the only one of the Eddaic lays which is dedicated to the god of vanir, Freyr. The poem deals with the offer of marriage to the giantess Gerör which the messanger, Skírnir, takes to htunheimr on Freyr's behalf. Regarding the question of age
Gro Steinsland
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Scandinavian belief in fate

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1967
In point of principle, Christianity does not give room for any belief in fate. Astrology, horoscopes, divination, etc., are strictly rejected. Belief in fate never disappeared in Christian countries, nor did it in Scandinavia in Christian times ...
Åke Ström
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Influences from the Huns on Scandinavian Sacrificial Customs during 300-500 AD

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1993
Votive offerings may be our main source of knowledge concerning the religion of the Iron Age before the Vikings. An important question is the connection between two kinds of sacrificial finds, i.e. horse sacrifices and burial offerings.
Marianne Görman
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Old Scandinavian and Christian eschatology

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
The eschatological beliefs current in Scandinavia during the Viking and early Medieval periods can be grouped into two main traditions, denoted by the concepts of Ragnarok and Doomsday.
Anders Hultgård
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Helskobinding - i litterær og religionshistorisk belysning

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1987
The starting point of this article is the problem of the reliability of information in the Icelandic sagas about Norse religion. It seems that there is a possibility of getting indirect information from the texts themselves.
Inger Vibeke Hansen
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Religion and Humour: Comical Layers in Old Norse Religious Texts and Their Relationship to the Offical Religion [PDF]

, 2014
This paper focuses on the comic layers in Eddic mythological poetry, namely in Lokasenna, Hárbarðsljóð and Ϸrymskviða, and on their relation to the Old Norse religion.
Michalíková, Jana
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The position of the individual gods and goddesses in various types of sources - with special reference to the female divinities

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
In the written sources the gods are arranged in a patriarchal family structure with Odin on the top.  If we try to rank the gods in order of precedence on the basis of the number of instances in the toponymic material, Odin would be found a good way down
Else Mundal
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“Ór franzeisu í norrænu” The transmission of Chrétien de Troyes’ Arthurian romances to old Norse literature [PDF]

, 2007
The present dissertation examines the riddarasogur based on the Arthurian romances by Chrétien de Troyes: Ívens saga, Erex saga, Parcevals saga and Valvens þáttr.
Lorenz, Christine
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