Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology : : Myth and Environment in Early Iceland /

Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology : : Myth and Environment in Early Iceland / / Mathias Nordvig.

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Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology details how Viking Age Icelanders, migrating from Scandinavia to a new and volcanically active environment, used Old Norse mythology to understand and negotiate the hazards of the island. These pre-Christian myths recorded in medieval Iceland expound an indigenous Ic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Nordvig, Mathias,
Place / Publishing House:Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Borderlines           
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Physical Description:1 online resource (162 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Old Norse Mythology between Environment and Literature
  • Chapter 2. An Indigenous Theory of Volcanism in Iceland
  • Chapter 3. Volcanism in Old Norse Cosmogony
  • Chapter 4. Volcanoes in the Social Order of Old Norse Mythology
  • Chapter 5. Volcanoes as a Cosmological Principle in Old Norse Mythology
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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