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…nú knáttu Óðin sjá: The Function of Hall-Based, Ritualised Performances of Old Norse Poetry in Pre-Christian Nordic Religion [PDF]
, 2018 Old Norse poetry and the society that generated the earliest examples thereof (roughly the Northern Germanic speaking area from c. 800 CE onwards) can generally be viewed as oral in nature, and recently the idea of the performance aspect of the Old Norse poems has been re-actualised by Terry Gunnell.
Simon Nygaard
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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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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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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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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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