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Les poèmes mythologiques et héroïques, la version en prose de Snorri Sturluson (le plus grand écrivain et mythographe islandais du Moyen-Âge, 1178-1241) de l’Edda sont les sources littéraires de cette étude mythologique. Chaque dieu est présenté avec ses attributs et ses fonctions à la faveur des textes qui le concernent et des mythes qui s’y rattachent sans faire l’impasse sur les incertitudes et les doutes de la recherche passée et actuelle. S’étendant sur 2 500 ans et sur un espace vivifié par les Vikings qui va du Groenland à Constantinople, du Nord de la Suède à Gibraltar, ce corpus de croyances païennes offre naturellement de singulières distorsions et présente cependant de confondantes continuités thématiques. À l’aide de l’archéologie, l’histoire, la littérature, l’onomastique et la linguistique, entre autres sciences, cet ouvrage fait non seulement le point sur les connaissances actuelles, mais encore bat en brèche certaines interprétations traditionnelles qui voudraient privilégier le côté martial alors que la civilisation où s’est développée cette mythologie a pour trait fondamental la troisième fonction dumézilienne.
Gods, Norse. --- Mythology, Norse. --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Norse gods --- runes --- Moyen-Âge --- mythologie --- Edda --- religion --- viking
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Provides information on the gods, heroes, rituals, beliefs, symbols, and stories of Norse mythology.
Mythology, Norse. --- Northmen --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Religion. --- Old Norse literature --- Icelandic literature --- History and criticism.
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Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.
Old Norse literature --- Mythology, Norse. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- History and criticism.
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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.
Old Norse poetry --- Eddas --- Wisdom in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Old Norse. --- Scandinavian mythology. --- Viking and medieval Scandinavia. --- eddic poetry. --- wisdom literature.
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Myth presents the latest interdisciplinary research by graduate students in the fields of German and Scandinavian studies, compiling papers that were introduced at the eponymous 2008 graduate student conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Focusing on myths in and about German and Scandinavian societies, these essays provide exemplary analyses of how cultural and social practices mutually inform and influence each other. This anthology is primarily intended for scholars acros...
Mythology, Germanic --- Mythology, Norse --- Folklore --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Germanic mythology --- Mythology, Teutonic --- Teutonic mythology
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"This book explores the role of apocalypse in Old Norse mythology and literature, relating it to the threat of ecological catastrophe today"--
Environmental disasters. --- Apocalypse in literature. --- Disasters in literature. --- Mythology, Norse. --- Old Norse literature --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- History and criticism.
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Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions explores the traditions of two fascinating and contiguous cultures in north-western Europe. History regularly brought these two peoples into contact, most prominently with the viking invasion of Ireland. In the famous Second Battle of Mag Tuired, gods such as Lug, Balor, and the Dagda participated in the conflict that distinguished this invasion. Pseudohistory, which consists of both secular and ecclesiastical fictions, arose in this nexus of peoples and myth and spilled over into other contexts such as chronological annals. Scandinavian gods such as Odin, Balder, Thor, and Loki feature in the Edda of Snorri Sturluson and the history of the Danes by Saxo Grammaticus. This volume explores such written works alongside archaeological evidence from earlier periods through fresh approaches that challenge entrenched views.
Mythology, Celtic. --- Mythology, Norse. --- History --- Celtic. --- Scandinavian. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Celtic mythology --- Celts --- History. --- Scandinavia --- Mythology, Vikings, Irish Pagan Gods, Saxo Grammaticus, Snorri Sturluson.
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Fragments of ancient belief mingle with folklore and Christian dogma until the original tenets are lost in the myths and psychologies of the intervening years. Hilda Ellis Davidson illustrates how pagan beliefs have been represented and misinterpreted by the Christian tradition, and throws light on the nature of pre-Christian beliefs and how they have been preserved. The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe stresses both the possibilities and the difficulties of investigating the lost religious beliefs of Northern Europe.
Celts --- Germanic peoples --- Mythology, Norse. --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Religion. --- Europe, Northern --- Northern Europe --- Antiquities. --- Mythology, Norse --- 293 --- Religion --- Godsdiensten van de Germanen en de Wenden --- Celtes --- Germains --- Mythologie nordique --- Europe septentrionale --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Mythology [Norse ] --- Europe [Northern ]
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Periodicals --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Norwegian language --- Norwegian language memories --- medieval literature --- Norwegian place names --- Scandinavian philology --- Folklore --- Mythology, Norse --- Letterkunde. --- Noors. --- Folklore. --- Mythology, Norse. --- Norwegian language. --- Scandinavian philology. --- Germanic philology --- Bokmål --- Dano-Norwegian language --- Riksmål --- Scandinavian languages --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Norwegian language (Bokmål) --- Norwegian language (Riksmål) --- Norway. --- Scandinavia. --- Fennoscandia --- Norden --- Nordic countries --- Kingdom of Norway --- Kongeriket Norge --- Noreg --- Norge --- Norvège --- Norvegia --- Norveška --- Norwegen --- Norwegia --- Literature. --- Norwegian. --- Kongeriket Noreg --- Norga --- Norgga gonagasriika --- Norja --- Noruw --- norwegian language --- norwegian language memories --- norwegian place names --- Norway --- Scandinavia
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