[图书][B] The Keys of Middle-Earth: discovering medieval literature through the fiction of JRR Tolkien

S Lee, E Solopova - 2016 - books.google.com
A comprehensive introduction to the medieval languages and texts that inspired Tolkien's
Middle-earth. Using key episodes in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings …

[图书][B] Essays on Eddic Poetry

J McKinnel, JD Shafer - 2014 - books.google.com
Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by
noted medievalist John McKinnell. While McKinnell's work addresses many of the perennial …

Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology

M Nordvig - 2021 - torrossa.com
Scandinavians realized that the landscape was different from their places of origin. Their
cultural background came primarily from pre-Christian Norway. Only a handful of them were …

A contest of cosmic fathers: God and giant in Vafþrúðnismál

Á Jakobsson - Neophilologus, 2008 - Springer
Abstract The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál depicts a contest of wisdom between Óðinn and a
wise giant. It re-enacts the conflict between gods and giants which seems to lie at the heart …

Being Óðinn Bursson: The Creation of Social and Moral Obligation in Viking Age Warrior-Bands through the Ritualized, Oral Performance of Poetry: The Case of …

S Nygaard - Social Norms in Medieval Scandinavia, 2019 - degruyter.com
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 …

Gylfaginning and early medieval conversion theory

C Abram - Saga-Book, 2009 - JSTOR
the subject of much debate. For the most part, these discussions have centred on the
Prologue to Snorra Edda, although Gylfaginning and the early parts of what is now referred …

[图书][B] Topographien der eddischen Mythen: Eine Untersuchung zu den Raumnarrativen und den narrativen Räumen in der Lieder-Edda und der Prosa-Edda

L Rösli - 2015 - books.google.com
Die beiden bekanntesten Texte der altnordischen Mythologie, die Lieder-Edda und die
Prosa-Edda, welche im 13. Jahrhundert in Island verschriftlicht wurden, bieten eine Vielzahl …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-Christian Eschatological Motifs in the Ukrainian Dumas and Spiritual Verses and Their Germanic Parallels

M Rakhno - Religions, 2024 - mdpi.com
The Ukrainian folklore genres least studied in a mythological context are the epic songs:
dumas and spiritual verses. In particular, it is possible to find concepts of the beginning and …

Representations of the pagan afterlife in medieval Scandinavian literature

C Abram - 2003 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The corpus of texts surviving from medieval Scandinavia which contain, or purport to
contain, pre-Christian myths, vestiges of a pagan belief-system, is quite large. As in all …

What Happens When 'Hider'and 'Screamer'Go Sailing with 'Noisy'? Geo-Mythological Traces in Old Icelandic Mythology

M Nordvig - Past Vulnerability. Volcanic Eruptions and Human …, 2015 - books.google.com
The stories of volcanic events and geological activity in early Iceland (c. AD 870-1500) are
scarce. The sources that would appear most straightforward and accessible are not …