Myth, materiality, and lived religion : in Merovingian and Viking Scandinavia / edited by Klas Wikström af Edholm, Peter Jackson Rova, Andreas Norberg, Olof Sundqvist & Torun Zachrisson.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Stockholm : Stockholm University Press, [2019]
  • ©2019
Description
viii, 438 pages : illustrations (some color), charts ; 22 cm

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Subject(s)
Editor
Editior
Series
  • Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in comparative religion ; 40. [More in this series]
  • Stockholm studies in comparative religion (SSCR), 2002-4606 ; 40
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
  • Gold is red : Sigurõarkviða en skamma 49-50 / Merrill Kaplan, Response by Agneta Ney
  • Halls, gods, and giants : The enigma of Gullveig in Óðinn 's Hall / Tommy Kuusela, Response by Eldar Heide
  • Mercury-Wotan - Óðinn : One or many? / Jens Peter Schjødt, Response by Peter Jackson Rova
  • Myth on stone and tapestry : Ragnarøk in pictures? / Anders Hultgård, Response by John Lindow
  • Ormhäxan, dragons, parturition and tradition / Stephen Mitchell, Response by Judy Quinn
  • Re-interpretations of Gotlandic picture stones based on the reflectance transformation imaging method (RTI) : Some examples / Sigmund Oehrl, Response by Anne-Sofie Gräslund
  • Gold foil figures and Norse mythology : Fact and fiction? / Margrethe Watt, Response by Olof Sundqvist
  • Finitude : Human and animal sacrifice in a Norse setting / Christina Fredengren and Camilla Löfqvist, Response by Klas Wikstrom af Edholm
  • Understanding embodiment through lived religion : A look at vernacular physiologies in an Old Norse milieu / Frog, Response by Margaret Clunies Ross
  • Animals and the Blót in the Old Norse sources and ritual depositions of bones from archaeological sites / Ola Magnell, Response by Kristin Armstrong Oma
  • Configurations of religion in late Iron Age and Viking Age Scandinavia / Andreas Nordberg, Response by Maths Bertell
  • Tangible religion : Amulets, illnesses, and the demonic seven sisters / Rudolf Simek, Response by Olaf Sundqvist
  • What does Óðinn do to the Túnriðor? An interpretation of Hávamál / Frederik Wallenstein,Response by Terry Gunnell
ISBN
  • 9789176350997 ((paperback))
  • 9176350991 ((paperback))
OCLC
1107645484
International Article Number
  • 9789176350997
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