Old Norse Mythology - 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 Old Norse Mythology write by John Lindow. This book was released on 2020. Old Norse Mythology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book treats from the perspective of the series "World mythologies in theory and in everyday life" the body of texts from medieval Scandinavia, mostly Iceland, usually known as "Norse mythology" or "Scandinavian mythology." Specifically, it constitutes a case study of a "literary or textual mythology," that is, a mythology from the past that we know only through written texts that have been left to us, augmented in a few cases by artifacts and images. This case is particularly interesting because the texts (with a tiny handful of enigmatic exceptions) were recorded centuries after the Nordic peoples had abandoned the religion associated with the mythology and converted to Christianity. The mythology lived on without direct connection to ritual activity or religious conviction. Drawing both on sources from before the conversion and on comparative analysis, it is certainly possible to reach informed inferences about the mythology before the conversion to Christianity-that is, when it existed as part of the pre-Christian religion of the Nordic peoples and their successors. From the perspective of the mythologies of the world, what is perhaps most important about these inferences is that this pre-Christian mythology was not a canonical mythology, since it almost certainly lacked a canon of sacred texts such as one finds in the great world religions of today. The focus of the book is not the mythology in and of itself, as would be true of a handbook, but rather how particular historical and intellectual circumstances formed conceptions about it."--
Theorizing Old Norse Myth
Theorizing Old Norse Myth - 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 Theorizing Old Norse Myth write by Stefan Brink. This book was released on 2017. Theorizing Old Norse Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection explores the theoretical and methodological foundations through which we understand Old Norse myths and the mythological world, and the medieval sources in which we find expressions of these. Some contributions take a broad, comparative perspective; some address specific details of Old Norse myths and mythology; and some devote their attention to questions concerning either individual gods and deities, or more topographical and spatial matters (such as conceptions of pagan cult sites). The elements discussed provide an introductory and general overview of scholarly enquiry into myth and ritual, as well as an attempt to define myth and theory for Old Norse scholarship. The articles also offer a rehabilitation of the comparative method alongside a discussion of the concept of 'cultural memory' and of the cognitive functions that myths may have performed in early Scandinavian society. Particular subjects of interest include analyses of the enigmatic god Heimdallr, the more well-known Oðinn, the deities, the female asynjur, and the 'elves' or alfar. Text-based discussions are set alongside recent archaeological discoveries of cult buildings and cult sites in Scandinavia, together with a discussion of the most enigmatic site of all: Uppsala in Sweden. The key themes discussed throughout this volume are brought together in the concluding chapter, in a comprehensive summary that sheds new light on current scholarly perspectives.
Old Norse Myths as Political Ideologies
Old Norse Myths as Political Ideologies - 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 Old Norse Myths as Political Ideologies write by Nicolas Meylan. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Old Norse Myths as Political Ideologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mythology of the Norse world has long been a source of fascination, from the first written texts of thirteenth-century Iceland up to the modern period. Most studies, however, have focused on the content of the narratives themselves, rather than the broader political contexts in which these myths have been explored. This volume offers a timely corrective to this broader trend by offering one of the first in-depth examinations of the political uses of Norse mythology within specific historical contexts. Tracing the changing interests and usages of Norse myths from the medieval period, via the nineteenth century and the importance of ancient Norse beliefs to both the Romantic and volkisch movements, up to the co-option of mythology and symbolism by political groups across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the papers gathered here offer new and critical insights into the changing nature of historiography and the political agendas that Old Norse myths are made to serve, as well as shedding new light on the way in which 'myths' are conceptualized.
Old Norse Mythology--comparative Perspectives
Old Norse Mythology--comparative Perspectives - 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 Old Norse Mythology--comparative Perspectives write by Pernille Hermann. This book was released on 2017. Old Norse Mythology--comparative Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The existing manuscripts of Old Norse mythology were written mainly by Christians, obscuring the pre-Christian oral histories. This book assembles comparisons from a range of analytical perspectives--examining the similarities and differences of the Old Norse mythologies with the myths of other cultures and within the Old Norse corpus itself.
Viking Myths and Sagas
Viking Myths and Sagas - 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 Viking Myths and Sagas write by Rosalind Kerven. This book was released on 2017-09-15. Viking Myths and Sagas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written in consultation with leading academics.
