The Well Spring of the Goths - 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 The Well Spring of the Goths write by Ingemar Nordgren. This book was released on 2004. The Well Spring of the Goths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Goths-a rumored people first known by history around the river Vistula in present Poland-was the people that more than other contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. It was however also the Goths who preserved the Roman culture against other Germanic tribes. Earlier it has been generally assumed the Goths originated in Scandinavia but during the 20th c. many scholars have grown skeptical. The author has, using both Classical and Nordic sources and supplementary sciences, made probable there is an intimate connection between the Goths and the Nordic countries. Consequently it is quite possible that at least part of the Goths have a Nordic origin. The book rests on the basic hypothesis that the Goths are not a people but a number of tribes and peoples united through a common religious/cultic origin. The old dispute concerning the relationship between Svear and Gautar also gets quite a new meaning. The book is interdisciplinary and embraces history, religion, arts, linguistics and archaeology. In 1999 Ingemar Nordgren received his Ph.D. at Odense University, Denmark The book builds to a considerable extent on his dissertation but has been updated and partly rewritten with brand new material.
The Goths
The Goths - 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 The Goths write by Arthur A. Jones; Robin Wiseman. This book was released on 2009-04-15. The Goths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. March and live with the Gothic tribes as they soar across Europe and struggle against their enemies. Join them in their battles, their joys and sorrows, the horrific wars against the Roman Empire and their search for a permanent homeland. These are stories told by the Goths themselves, each in his or her own words, placing you in their midst as a first-hand observer of one of the most violent epochs of change in European history.
The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination
The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination - 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 The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination write by Robert Rix. This book was released on 2014-11-13. The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To Christian Europe, the pagan North was an abject Other, but it also symbolized a place from which ancestral strength and energy derived. Rix maps how these discourses informed ‘national’ legends of ancestral origins, showing how an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend can be found in works by several familiar writers including Jordanes, Bede, ‘Fredegar’, Paul the Deacon, Freculph, and Æthelweard. The book investigates how legends of northern warriors were first created in classical texts and since re-calibrated to fit different medieval understandings of identity and ethnicity. Among other things, the ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ tale was exploited to promote a legacy of ‘barbarian’ vigor that could withstand the negative cultural effects of Roman civilization. This volume employs a variety of perspectives cutting across the disciplines of poetry, history, rhetoric, linguistics, and archaeology. After years of intense critical interest in medieval attitudes towards the classical world, Africa, and the East, this first book-length study of ‘the North’ will inspire new debates and repositionings in medieval studies.
The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf'
The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' - 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 The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' write by Edward Pettit. This book was released on 2020-01-14. The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon and its likely relatives within Beowulf and beyond, drawing on the fields of Old English and Old Norse language and literature, liturgy, archaeology, astronomy, folklore and comparative mythology. In Part I, Pettit explores the complex of connotations surrounding this image (from icicles to candles and crosses) by examining a range of medieval sources, and argues that the giant sword may function as a visual motif in which pre-Christian Germanic concepts and prominent Christian symbols coalesce. In Part II, Pettit investigates the broader Germanic background to this image, especially in relation to the god Ing/Yngvi-Freyr, and explores the capacity of myths to recur and endure across time. Drawing on an eclectic range of narrative and linguistic evidence from Northern European texts, and on archaeological discoveries, Pettit suggests that the image of the giant sword, and the characters and events associated with it, may reflect an elemental struggle between the sun and the moon, articulated through an underlying myth about the theft and repossession of sunlight. The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' is a welcome contribution to the overlapping fields of Beowulf-scholarship, Old Norse-Icelandic literature and Germanic philology. Not only does it present a wealth of new readings that shed light on the craft of the Beowulf-poet and inform our understanding of the poem’s major episodes and themes; it further highlights the merits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach alongside a comparative vantage point. As such, The Waning Sword will be compelling reading for Beowulf-scholars and for a wider audience of medievalists.
A Comparative Glossary of the Gothic Language with Especial Reference to English and German
A Comparative Glossary of the Gothic Language with Especial Reference to English and German - 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 A Comparative Glossary of the Gothic Language with Especial Reference to English and German write by Gerhard Hubert Balg. This book was released on 1889. A Comparative Glossary of the Gothic Language with Especial Reference to English and German available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
