Myth, materiality, and lived religion : : in Merovingian and Viking Scandinavia / / edited by Klas Wikström af Edholm [and four others].
"The authors of the present volume, Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion, focus on the material dimension of Old Norse mythology and the role played by myths in everyday life. More broadly expressed, the collection looks at the social, ceremonial and material contexts of myths. This topic has...
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| Superior document: | Stockholm studies in comparative religion ; 40 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Stockholm : : Stockholm University Press,, [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in comparative religion ;
40. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 438 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of 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.