Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions / / ed. by Emily Lyle.
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 Moytura, g...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Early Medieval North Atlantic ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Celtic Tradition
- 1 The Nature of the Fomoiri: The Dark Other in the Medieval Irish Imagination
- 2 Tuatha Dé and Fomoiri in Cath Maige Tuired
- 3 Exploring Cath Maige Tuired through the Concept of Hybridity
- 4 How Time Flies in the Cath Maige Tuired
- 5 The Idols of the Pagan Irish in the Medieval Literary Imagination
- 6 Myth as a Historical Resource : The Case of Orgain Denna Ríg (The Destruction of Dinn Ríg)
- 7 Hagiography as Political Documentation : The Case of Betha Beraigh (The Life of St Berach)
- Scandinavian Tradition
- 8 Baldr’s Achilles’ Heel? About the Scandinavian Three-God B-Bracteates
- 9 The Cult of Óðinn in the Early Scandinavian Warrior Aristocracy
- 10 Myth to History in Saxo
- 11 The Scylding Dynasty in Saxo and Beowulf as Disguised Theogony
- 12 Loki the Slandered God? Selective Omission of Skaldic Citations in Snorri Sturluson’s Edda
- 13 Ymir, Baldr, and the Grand Narrative Arc of Mythological History
- Index