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Imagining Vínland : George Mackay Brown and the literature of the New World [PDF]
, 2013 This essay looks at George Mackay Brown's novel of 1992, Vinland, in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century “foundation myth” literature inspired by the Viking discovery of North America as originally recounted in medieval Icelandic sagas. This
Arnold, Martin
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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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Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon : an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding [PDF]
, 2017 Acknowledgements We would like to thank Laura Whitehouse, John Carman, Oliver Grimm, Julie Lund, Bjørnar Olsen, two anonymous reviewers, and the editor for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper.
Collard, Mark +2 more
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Weber and Coyote : polytheism as a practical attitude [PDF]
, 2018 This document is the Accepted Manuscript of an article accepted for publication in Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions. Under embargo until 9 September 2018.
Larvor, Brendan
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THE CELESTIAL FERRYMAN IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION "SAILOR OF THE DEAD" [PDF]
Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2016 ( En ) In the ancient Egyptian religion, the ferryman was generally called (¡r.f-HA.f) and depicted as a sailor or a boatman standing in the stern of a papyrus boat.
Radwan Ahmed
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Magical Music in Old Norse Literature
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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Horizontale und vertikale Achsen in der vorchristlichen skandinavischen Kosmologie
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990 The article analyses the cosmology of Old Norse religion before the arrival of Christianity to Scandinavia and strives to illuminate the image of the world upheld in this context on the basis of the scarce source material that is available.
Jens Schjødt
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Child abandonment as an indicator of Christianization in the Nordic countries
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990 In the Nordic countries, child abandonment seems to have been a commonly accepted social tradition until the acceptance of Christianity. When Christian influences reached the Far North, this old practice was gradually criminalized.
Juha Pentikäinen
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Population, sex ratios and Development in Greenland [PDF]
, 2010 During the 20th century, Greenland society experienced a dramatic transformation from scattered settlements based on hunting, with mostly turf dwellings, to an urbanizing post-industrial economy.
Hamilton, Lawrence C. +1 more
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Correspondences, 2022 The article focuses on how a nineteenth-century Swedish nationalistic movement, Göthicism, understood masculinity. The primary example used is Manhemsförbundet (the Manhem Society), an initiatory and educational organization active between 1815–1823 ...
Fredrik Gregorius
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