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Autore |
Andrén Anders <1952-> |
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Tracing old Norse cosmology : the world tree, middle earth, and the sun from archaeological perspectives / / Anders Andrén |
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Lund : , : Nordic Academic Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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Collana |
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Vägar till Midgård ; ; 16 |
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Cosmology, Norse |
Mythology, Norse |
Northmen - Religion |
Archaeology and religion - Scandinavia |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-230) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Old Norse cosmology as an archaeological challenge; Cosmological aspects of Old Norse religion; The chronological and spatial horizons of Old Norse cosmology; Archaeology and Old Norse cosmology; Three archaeological studies; 2. In the shadow of Yggdrasill; Mythological trees; Real trees; Representations of trees; The archaeology of 'tree settings'; The semiotics of the 'tree settings'; The world from the view-point of 'tree settings'; The tree in Old Norse religion; 3. A world of stone; A biography of Ismantorp; Ölandic comparisons |
Scandinavian fortsOutlines of an early Scandinavian martial culture; War as ritualized action; War and cosmology; Models and parallels; Back to Ismantorp; Ismantorp and Old Norse cosmology; 4. Whirls, horses, and ships; Early picture stones on Gotland; New contexts; An initial pictorial analysis; A return trip to Bronze Age iconography; Bridging the gap between Eskelhem and Sanda; Bronze Age perspectives on early Gotlandic picture stones; Metalwork in the Iron Age; A special case: the gold bracteates; Iron Age perspectives on early Gotlandic picture stones |
The sun in later mythological contextsTracing sun rituals; The |
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disappearance of solar symbols and sun rituals in the sixth century; Solar traditions through time; 5. Placing Old Norse cosmology in time and space; Different trajectories; The Migration Period as a cluster of changes; The Huns; The dust veil; The disappearance of the sun-oriented traditions in the sixth century; A golden age; Outlines of a new context; References; Primary Old Norse sources; Other primary sources and secondary literature |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén offers a long-term perspective on Old Norse cosmology and argues that the fundamental ideas of an ordered universe, time, and space in Old Norse religion can be studied in a dialogue between archaeology and the Icelandic narrative tradition. Ideas about the world tree, middle earth, and the sun can be |
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