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Do Thor and Odin Have Bodies? Superperception and Divine Intervention among the Old Norse Gods
Religions, 2019 In Old Norse mythology, gods like Freyja, Odin, and Thor are usually characterized as human-like creatures: they walk and ride animals, eat, grow old, and even die.
Declan Taggart
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Humanities, 2020 Many Humanities scholars seem to have become increasingly pessimistic due to a lack of success in their efforts to be recognized as a serious player next to their science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) colleagues.
Jan Alexander van Nahl
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Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : Inspired by the concept of Cultural Christianity, we investigate if something like Cultural Asatru exists in Denmark. A Cultural Asatru person may not believe in or worship the Old Norse gods, but may still identify with a pre-Christian heritage ...
Uffe Schjødt +4 more
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The study of the Christianization of the Nordic countries: some reflections
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990 The focus of this paper is some problems that appear in the study of the transition from old Norse religion to Christianity, which requires further reflection.
Ragnhild Finnestad
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Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023 This paper is the second in a three-part series on the distinctive type of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter, argued to have emerged through the metricalization of uses of rhyme within a short line found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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The Warrior and the Cat: A Re-Evaluation of the Roles of Domestic Cats in Viking Age Scandinavia
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2019 The role of cats in Viking Age society is little investigated and has been dominated by uncritical adoptions of medieval mythology. Based on literary sources, the domestic cat is often linked to cultic spheres of female sorcery.
Matthias S. Toplak
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The Grammaticalization of the Epistemic Adverb Perhaps in Late Middle and Early Modern English
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2021 Old and Early Middle English did not yet have modal sentential adverbs of low probability. Old Norse did not have such words, either. From the 13th century onwards first epistemic prepositional phrases of Anglo-Norman origin functioning as modal ...
Molencki Rafał
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Collegium Medievale, 2023 This article is based on recent research about Irish loanwords to Old Norse, but also a former discussion about the word "gagarr" (dog) and whether it originates in Norse or Gaelic languages.
Anne Lind
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Shieling activity in the Norse Eastern Settlement : palaeoenvironment of the 'Mountain Farm', Vatnahverfi, Greenland [PDF]
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Edwards, Kevin J +2 more
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Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023 This paper is the first in a three-part series or tryptic that argues for the Old Germanic origins of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter. This meter requires rhymes on the stressed syllables of two words within a six-position line, irrespective of ...
Frog
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