Myth and Environment in Early Iceland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myth and Environment in Early Iceland write by Mathias Nordvig. This book was released on 2021-05-31. Myth and Environment in Early Iceland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology details how Viking Age Icelanders, migrating from Scandinavia to a new and volcanically active environment, used Old Norse mythology to understand and negotiate the hazards of the island. These pre-Christian myths recorded in medieval Iceland expound an indigenous Icelandic theory on volcanism that revolves around the activities of supernatural beings, such as the fire-demon Surtr and the gods Odin and Thor. Before the Icelanders were introduced to Christianity and its teachings, they formulated an indigenous theory of volcanism on basis of their traditional mythology much like other indigenous peoples across the world.
Evergreen Ash
Evergreen Ash - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evergreen Ash write by Christopher Abram. This book was released on 2019-02-06. Evergreen Ash available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will no longer support the life it once nurtured. Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Ragnarok originated in Iceland, a nation whose volcanic activity places it perpetually on the brink of a world-changing environmental catastrophe. As the first full-length ecocritical study of Old Norse myth and literature, Evergreen Ash argues that Ragnarok is primarily a story of ecological collapse that reflects the anxieties of early Icelanders who were trying to make a home in a profoundly strange, marginal, and at times hostile environment. Christopher Abram here contends that Ragnarok offers an uncanny foreshadowing of our current global ecological crisis—the era of the Anthropocene. Ragnarok portends what may happen when a civilization believes that nature can be mastered and treated only as a resource to be exploited for human ends. The enduring power of the Ragnarok myth, and its relevance to life in the era of climate change, lies in its terrifying evocation of a world in which nothing is what it was before, a world that is no longer home to us—and, thus, a world with no future. Climate change may well be our Ragnarok.
Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100
Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100 write by Ann-Marie Long. This book was released on 2017-07-03. Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100: Memory, History and Identity, Ann-Marie Long reassesses the development of early Icelandic society and how it was memorialised, with particular attention given to the place of Norway in Icelandic cultural memory.
Prolonged Echoes: The reception of Norse myths in medieval Iceland
Prolonged Echoes: The reception of Norse myths in medieval Iceland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prolonged Echoes: The reception of Norse myths in medieval Iceland write by Margaret Clunies Ross. This book was released on 1998. Prolonged Echoes: The reception of Norse myths in medieval Iceland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prolonged Echoes is the second volume in the two volume study of Old Norse myths and their meaning both for us and for medieval Scandinavians, -- some of whom we should thank for the myths' written transmission through the Middle Ages and into modern times. The subject of Vol. 2 is the reception and use of Old Norse myths by the Cristian community of medieval Iceland. It requires us to consider a wider range of Old Icelandic texts, including those studied in volume one but extending to works that, while not taking myth as their subject, utilise it and references to it in their larger discourse. A number of excellent general studies that are available to assist readers unfamiliar with recent writing on early medieval Scandinavia are listed as an addendum.
Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry
Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry write by Andrew McGillivray. This book was released on 2018-10-08. Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál serves as a representation of early pagan beliefs or myths and as a myth itself; the poem performs both of these functions, acting as a poetic framework and functioning as sacred myth. In this study, the author looks closely at the journey of the Norse god Óðinn to the hall of the ancient and wise giant Vafþrúðnir, where Óðinn craftily engages his adversary in a life-or-death contest in knowledge.
