For all the richly-detailed texts that preserve (or claim to preserve) pre-Christian mythology
and beliefs, details of Germanic Nordic religious praxis in the Late Iron Age are few and far …

This thesis is a study of the valkyrjur ('valkyries') during the late Iron Age, specifically of the
various uses to which the myths of these beings were put by the hall-based warrior elite of …

The eleventh-century Christianization of Gotland seems to have been a gradual, even drawn-
out process, without a singular moment of national'conversion'of the type undergone by …

THe ORAL NATURe of Old Norse poetry and indeed Old Norse society is almost a
commonplace within scholarship today. Recently the idea of the performance 2 aspect of …

In this chapter we survey and analyse evidence for processions and their possible functions
in Viking Age Scandinavia. We propose two forms of processional movement, and examine …

Previous studies of the dísir have tended to focus on either their links with fertility or use of
the term to designate a wide range of supranatural female figures. This study reassesses the …

This paper was born out of research into the practicalities and sensualities of pilgrim travel in
medieval Britain. 2 What stood out the most during the course of this research and the …

There is a growing acceptance that pre-Christian religion in the Nordic region was not a
single monolithic cultural system, but rather varied along a range of geographic, social …

The transmission of law in pre-Christian Iceland was an oral process in an oral society. In
oral societies, such transmission processes may be characterized as a cultivation of cultural …

This paper addresses some contemporary challenges in approaching the Viking Age,
specifically the need for new interpretive models that we can bring to bear on its material …