The Reception of »Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century
Author: Jeffrey Scott Love
Publisher: Herbert Utz Verlag
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 3831642257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jeffrey Scott Love
Publisher: Herbert Utz Verlag
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 3831642257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jeffrey Scott Love
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783831686537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Karl A.E. Enenkel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 900430083X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discourses of Anger offers an interdisciplinary account of how different discourses generated their own version, assessment, and semantics of anger in the early modern period. It includes contributions on philosophy and theology, poetry, medicine, law, political theory, and art.
Author: Christopher Tolkien
Publisher: Viking Society for Northern Research University College
Published: 1976-12
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780903521116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stefan Olsson
Publisher:
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9789176351079
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The aim of this book is to investigate the taking and giving of hostages in peace processes during the Viking Age and early Middle Ages in Scandinavia and adjacent areas. Scandinavia has been absent in previous research about hostages from the perspectives of legal and social history, which has mostly focused on Antiquity (the Roman Empire), Continental Germanic cultures, such as the Merovingian realm, and Anglo-Saxon England. The examples presented are from confrontations between Scandinavians and other peoples in which the hostage giving and taking was displayed as a ritual act and thus became symbolically important. Hostages were a vital part of the peace processes and used as resources by both sides in the 'areas of communication' within the 'areas of confrontation'. Literary texts as well as runic inscriptions, picture stones, place names, and personal names are used as source material.
Author: Vilhelm Gronbech
Publisher:
Published: 2023-09-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781956887914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vilhelm Grønbech was a preeminent professor of the history of religion at the University of Copenhagen in the early twentieth century. His vast breadth of knowledge of world cultures and religions had profound effect on Danish academic thought, and in The Culture of the Teutons, Grønbech turns his keen analysis toward his own culture, that of Germanic Europe. Grønbech draws upon a rich panoply of sources in the Norse sagas, legal rulings, and historical figures both living and mythological to deliver for us a compelling thesis of the tribes that harried Rome, of the Viking Age, of pagan rituals and later widespread adoption of Christianity as much more than the sum of bloodthirsty plundering, as less charitable historians have condemned them. Instead, we delve into a culture alien to that of Tacitus or the Greeks, misunderstood for hundreds if not thousands of years. In seeming contradiction, the pagan worldview is foreign compared to our own today, or to the culturally imperialistic Romans who documented their "barbarian" foes, yet one cannot be truly estranged from his own ancestors. The genius of The Culture of the Teutons lies in Grønbech's ability to weave together what at first glance appear polar opposites, but in reality are inexorably linked. The various Germanic tribes of Europe, the Teutons, place unshakeable value on honor, family, and religion to create a society perplexingly carnal yet sophisticated, advanced yet close to nature. And nowhere is this clearer than in their settlement of inhospitable lands such as Iceland or the Faroe Islands, in which they brought order to a seemingly untamable environment. The impact of the peoples of Northern Europe on world history today is so vast no amount of spilled ink can pay it justice. Antelope Hill Publishing is proud to bring this expansive tome back into the limelight for a modern English-speaking audience, now complete with a substantial glossary, index, and hundreds of footnotes to confer important cultural context that would have been assumed common knowledge to its intended Danish audience. Volume II, published in 1912, hones in on the mystic aspects of paganism, the customs of gift giving, the buying and selling of land, and a deep exploration into the various Norse gods.
Author: Johannes Christoffer Hagemann Reinhardt Steenstrup
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ken Dowden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1134810229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →European Paganism provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of ancient pagan religions throughout the European continent. Before there where Christians, the peoples of Europe were pagans. Were they bloodthirsty savages hanging human offerings from trees? Were they happy ecologists, valuing the unpolluted rivers and mountains? In European Paganism Ken Dowden outlines and analyses the diverse aspects of pagan ritual and culture from human sacrifice to pilgrimage lunar festivals and tree worship. It includes: a 'timelines' chart to aid with chronology many quotations from ancient and modern sources translated from the original language where necessary, to make them accessible a comprehensive bibliography and guide to further reading
Author: Andrew McGillivray
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 3110625385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál serves as a representation of early pagan beliefs or myths and as a myth itself; the poem performs both of these functions, acting as a poetic framework and functioning as sacred myth. In this study, the author looks closely at the journey of the Norse god Óðinn to the hall of the ancient and wise giant Vafþrúðnir, where Óðinn craftily engages his adversary in a life-or-death contest in knowledge.
Author: Knut Helle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-09-04
Total Pages: 942
ISBN-13: 9780521472999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.