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English Studies, 2021
Abstract Old Norse Mythology treats the mythology of Scandinavia: the gods Þórr (Thor) with his hammer, the wily and duplicitous Óðinn (Odin), the sly Loki, and other mythological figures. They create the world, battle their enemies, and die at the end of the world, which arises anew with a new generation of gods.
Leonard Neidorf
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Abstract Old Norse Mythology treats the mythology of Scandinavia: the gods Þórr (Thor) with his hammer, the wily and duplicitous Óðinn (Odin), the sly Loki, and other mythological figures. They create the world, battle their enemies, and die at the end of the world, which arises anew with a new generation of gods.
Leonard Neidorf
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Folklore, 2022
the prince as a libertine and his father, George V, stated that, “After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months” (Phillip Ziegler, King Edward VIII [HarperCollins 2012], 174).
Karen Bek-Pedersen
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the prince as a libertine and his father, George V, stated that, “After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months” (Phillip Ziegler, King Edward VIII [HarperCollins 2012], 174).
Karen Bek-Pedersen
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2023
The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod, and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. This book explores the complexities of this fascinating world in case studies and theoretical essays that connect orality and ...
Stephen A. Mitchell
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The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod, and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. This book explores the complexities of this fascinating world in case studies and theoretical essays that connect orality and ...
Stephen A. Mitchell
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Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
2019In the past few decades, interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a great deal of interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Until the 1980s,
Carol J. Clover, John Lindow
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“OK HUGÐA EK ÞAT ARGS AÞAL!”: QUEERNESS IN OLD NORSE SOCIETY AND MYTHS
Scandia Journal of Medieval Norse Studies, 2023The Æsir, the gods of the Norse myths, are not a cis-heterosexual monolith, despite the traditional interpretations of the myths. Over the past thirty years scholars have exposed or teased out the queerness within the pantheon and the myths.
Jess Nevins
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Did a Little Birdie Really Tell Odin? Applying Theory of Mind to Old Norse Religion
Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2021Theory of mind, the theory that humans attribute mental states to others, has become increasingly influential in the Cognitive Science of Religion in recent years, due to several papers which posit that supernatural agents, like gods, demons, and the ...
D. Taggart
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Ok lá þar at óvilja hennar: A Reconsideration of Sexual Violence in the Old Norse World
Journal of Family History, 2021Despite the popularized image of the raping and pillaging Viking warrior, the culture of sexual violence in Old Norse society has remained surprisingly understudied.
Jacobē Bell
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Discourse in Old Norse Literature
, 2021An examination of what dialogues and direct speech in Old Norse literature can convey and mean, beyond their immediate face-value.
E. Bryan
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