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Author : Ivar Lindquist
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Die Urgestalt der Hávamál written by Ivar Lindquist and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Medieval Academy of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802038234
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Old Norse-Icelandic Literature written by Medieval Academy of America and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the past few decades, interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a corresponding interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Until the 1980s, however, there was a distinct lack of scholarship in English that synthesized the critical trends and thinking in the field, so in 1985 Carol J. Clover and John Lindow brought together several of the most distinguished Old Norse scholars to contribute essays for a collection that would finally provide a comprehensive guide to the major genres of Old Norse-Icelandic literature." "The contributors summarize and comment on scholarly work in the major branches of the field: eddic and skaldic poetry, family and kings' sagas, courtly writing, and mythology. Their essays, each with a full bibliography, make up this vital survey of Old Norse literature in English - a basic reference work that has stimulated much research and helped to open up the field to a wider academic readership." "This volume has become an essential text for instructors, and now, twenty years after its first appearance, it is being republished as part of the Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (MART) series with a new preface that discusses more recent contributions to the field."
Author : Carol J. Clover
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501741659
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Old Norse-Icelandic Literature written by Carol J. Clover and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current revival of interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a corresponding interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Even readers with a knowledge of Old Norse and Icelandic have found these subjects difficult to pursue, however, for up-to-date reference works in any language are few and none exist in English. To fill the gap, six distinguished scholars have contributed ambitious new essays to this volume. The contributors summarize and comment on scholarly work in the major branches of the field: Eddie and skaldic poetry, family and kings' sagas, courtly writing, and mythology. Taken together, their judicious and attractively written essays-each with a full bibliography-make up the first book-length survey of Old Norse literature in English and a basic reference work that will stimulate research in these areas and help to open up the field to a wider academic readership.
Author : Brittany Erin Schorn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110549794
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry written by Brittany Erin Schorn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offers a wide-ranging enquiry into the defining features of Old Norse wisdom, including the representation of wisdom in texts which cross traditional generic boundaries. It builds on recent advances in understanding of pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia, and calls on comparative and supporting work from several different disciplinary backgrounds (including literary theory, other medieval literatures and anthropology). Speaker and Authority interrogates important questions about the concept of knowledge, as well as its role in medieval Scandinavian society and its broader European cultural context.
Author : Richard North
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004454969
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Pagan Words and Christian Meanings written by Richard North and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evolution of attitudes towards pre-Christian custom in , North-West Europe, as shown in early .medieval word-fields and texts in Old English and Old Icelandic literature, is represented in six variously focussed studies. The first three chapters, Pagan Words, form a network of research on pre-Christian concepts of mind and soul as they survived, still active, in Christianized heroic poetry. This was part of. the heathen matrix through which the first expressions of Christianity in Old English and Icelandic literature were possible. The second half of this book, Christian Meanings, shows .how the same Christian literature produced reinterpretations of paganism. The literary range stretches from the earliest epic formulae to the polished genealogical novels of thirteenth-century Iceland- An ancient tradition of augury is invoked by the poet of The Seafarer to illustrate a believer's passage to heaven. In Havamal, an artificially pagan creed of ritual teaching and responses is compiled in Iceland as an antiquarian entertainment, perhaps on a Christian model. The last chapter shows a variety of Christian interpretations of, paganism in four sagas of Icelanders from the early to late thirteenth century. Overall where paganism was concerned, the tendency was first to cast off a way of life, then later, when that life was lost forever, to reinvent it for the imagination.
Author : Kveldulf Gundarsson
Publisher : The Three Little Sisters
ISBN 13 : 1959350110
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (593 download)
Download or read book The Teutonic Way: Wotan written by Kveldulf Gundarsson and published by The Three Little Sisters. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wotan, The Road to Valhalla is a comprehensive and in depth guide on the god Wotan/Odin. The bookcovers everything you ever wanted to know about Odin. It shows us his origins, relevant lore and historical worship through the centuries. The book includes modern stories about the current followers of Odin and rituals for practicaluse. Join the author, Kveldúlf Gundarsson in his personal thought to understanding Wotan.
Author : Andrew Orchard
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1399601423
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend written by Andrew Orchard and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Loki to Thor, Ragnarok to Beowulf A gripping and truly mesmerising delve into the Norse legends From bestselling books to blockbusting Hollywood movies, the myths of the Scandinavian gods and heroes are part of the modern day landscape. For over a millennium before the arrival of Christianity, the legends permeated everyday life in Iceland and the northern reaches of Europe. Since that time, they have been perpetuated in literature and the arts in forms as diverse as Tolkien and Wagner, graphic novels to the world of Marvel. This book covers the entire cast of supernatural beings, from gods to trolls, heroes to monsters, and deals with the social and historical background to the myths, topics such as burial rites, sacrificial practices and runes.
Author : Bernhard Jussen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812235616
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Ordering Medieval Society written by Bernhard Jussen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These essays challenge a once-dominant mode of German medieval studies, "constitutional history." In doing so, they reimage a more dynamic and less hierarchical Middle Ages."—Medieval Review
Author : Annette Lassen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000469824
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Odin’s Ways written by Annette Lassen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Old Norse god Odin. It includes references to all occurrences of Odin in the Old Norse/Icelandic texts, including Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the eddic poems, Snorri’s Edda, and Ynglinga saga and analyses the high medieval reception and literary representations of Odin rather than the religious character of the god. This is the only existing study of Odin in all the Old Norse/Icelandic texts and applies a contextual method: the different guises of Odin are studied on the basis of the various textual contexts and on their background in the literary and Christian intellectual milieu of the time. Contrary to existing studies, this method is non-reductive in that it does not aim at providing a synthesis about Odin’s original nature on the basis of the differing textual uses of Odin in the Middle Ages. The book argues that the perceived complexity of Odin, often highlighted in research, is first and foremost a function of the complex textual material spanning a wide variety of genres each with its particular literary conventions and of the reception of Odin in early modern and modern mythological studies.
Author : Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203712
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able—and who in some instances thought themselves able—to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these beliefs in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages. His sources range from the Icelandic sagas to cultural monuments much less familiar to the nonspecialist, including legal cases, church art, law codes, ecclesiastical records, and runic spells. Mitchell's starting point is the year 1100, by which time Christianity was well established in elite circles throughout Scandinavia, even as some pre-Christian practices and beliefs persisted in various forms. The book's endpoint coincides with the coming of the Reformation and the onset of the early modern Scandinavian witch hunts. The terrain covered is complex, home to the Germanic Scandinavians as well as their non-Indo-European neighbors, the Sámi and Finns, and it encompasses such diverse areas as the important trade cities of Copenhagen, Bergen, and Stockholm, with their large foreign populations; the rural hinterlands; and the insular outposts of Iceland and Greenland. By examining witches, wizards, and seeresses in literature, lore, and law, as well as surviving charm magic directed toward love, prophecy, health, and weather, Mitchell provides a portrait of both the practitioners of medieval Nordic magic and its performance. With an understanding of mythology as a living system of cultural signs (not just ancient sacred narratives), this study also focuses on such powerful evolving myths as those of "the milk-stealing witch," the diabolical pact, and the witches' journey to Blåkulla. Court cases involving witchcraft, charm magic, and apostasy demonstrate that witchcraft ideologies played a key role in conceptualizing gender and were themselves an important means of exercising social control.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Mankind quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mankind Quarterly written by Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George William Abernethy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Germanic Metrical Charms written by George William Abernethy and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol J. Clover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Islandica written by Carol J. Clover and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Birgitta Rooth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Types of the Irish Folktale written by Anna Birgitta Rooth and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olof Sigfrid Arngart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Durham Proverbs written by Olof Sigfrid Arngart and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
