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Do Thor and Odin Have Bodies? Superperception and Divine Intervention among the Old Norse Gods [PDF]
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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Fragments of the past: how to study old Norse religion [PDF]
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1999 The state of the sources of the Old Norse religions presents a great problem. Most of them were written down two hundred or even three hundred years after the Christianization of the North, based on an oral tradition going back to the pre-Christian ages.
Britt-Mari Näsström
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The Demise of Norse Religion [PDF]
, 2023 When describing the transition from Old Norse religion to Christianity in recent studies, the concept of "Christianization" is often applied. To a large extent this historiography focuses on the outcome of the encounter, namely the description of early Medieval Christianity and the new Christian society.
Sundqvist, Olof
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Valhall and Helgafell: syncretistic traits of the Old Norse religion [PDF]
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1969 The religion of the Viking age, the pre-Christian faith, presents itself as a syncretism, It is quite peculiarly evident from the tradition surrounding the origin of the gods in Åsgard.
Odd Nordland
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Religion in the Viking Age Moral Economy
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : On those rare occasions when Old Norse religion and morality are set alongside one another, the notion of a non-Christian morality is typically dismissed or Old Norse religion is viewed as actively holding back moral progress.
Declan Taggart
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Scripta Islandica, 2023 The idea that Old Norse poetry derives from an oral tradition is commonly accepted in contemporary research. However, more detailed considerations of the consequences of this notion for our understanding of specific poems and their context are seldomly ...
Simon Nygaard
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Gerhard Schøning som religionshistoriker: Odins rolle i hans historiske forfatterskap
Teologisk Tidsskrift, 2023 Historikeren Gerhard Schøning hevdet at den norrøne overleveringens flertydige omtale av Odin skjulte ikke mindre enn tre ulike historiske skikkelser som hadde gitt seg ut for å være, og blitt akseptert som, den norrøne guddommen.
Håkon Evju
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Remembering Heathen Women in Medieval Icelandic Literature
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2021 : Several Icelandic texts from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries depict female characters from the pre-Christian past. In both poetry and prose, these heathen women are often portrayed as recalling the old, pre ...
Ann Sheffield
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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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