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Magical Music in Old Norse Literature [PDF]
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996 No society ever existed without performing music, and most cultures display many variants of music. Music also played and still plays an important part in different religious rites. From the days of yore, music has been intimately connected with the cult,
Britt-Mari Näsström
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The Question of Ancient Scandinavian Cultic Buildings: with Particular Reference to Old Norse hof [PDF]
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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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would ...
Laura J. Botzet +2 more
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Der Runenstein von Tanum - ein religionsgeschichtliches Denkmal aus urnordischer Zeit
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990 The article offers a critical analysis of the inscriptions on three runic stones: the Rök stone from the early Viking Era (800-820), the stone from Stentoften (550-580/699) and the stone from Tanum (200-500).
Ottar Grønvik
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Formes de mystique dans le Nord préchrétien
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1970 In this paper, the author explores mysticism found in a Nordic context, exemplified by different forms of mystic experiences in old Norse religion described in old Scandinavian poetry and literature.
Åke Ström
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Old Nordic and Christian elements in Saami ideas about the realm of the dead
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1987 The fact that a word or concept has been borrowed from outside does not mean that the original content, the original ideas which the loan word in question expresses, have also been adopted.
Olof Pettersson
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Revenants in Old Norse literature as embodied memory
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2020 Beings that come from the past into the present could be an example par excellence for memory studies. Revenants are an outstanding phenomenon of Old Norse literature that has been researched from many points of view: e.g.
Marie Novotná
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The Role of Rulers in the Winding Up of the Old Norse Religion [PDF]
Numen, 2021 Abstract It is a common opinion in research that the Scandinavians changed religion during the second half of the Viking Age, that is, ca. 950–1050/1100 CE. During this period, Christianity replaced the Old Norse religion. When describing this transition in recent studies, the concept “Christianization” is often applied.
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Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion [PDF]
, 2019 "The authors of the present volume, Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion, focus on the material dimension of Old Norse mythology and the role played by myths in everyday life.
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Tracing Old Norse Cosmology : The world tree, middle earth, and the sun in archaeological perspectives [PDF]
, 2014 An archaeological investigation of three cosmological elements in Old Norse religion, namely the world tree, Midgard and the sun. The changing character of these elements are investigated via different forms of material representations from the Bronze ...
Andrén, Anders,
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