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Tracing old Norse cosmology : the world tree, middle earth, and the sun from archaeological perspectives / / Anders Andrén
| Tracing old Norse cosmology : the world tree, middle earth, and the sun from archaeological perspectives / / Anders Andrén |
| Autore | Andrén Anders <1952-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lund : , : Nordic Academic Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
| Disciplina | 293.13 |
| Collana | Vägar till Midgård |
| Soggetto topico |
Cosmology, Norse
Mythology, Norse Northmen - Religion Archaeology and religion - Scandinavia |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 91-87675-01-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910531956503321 |
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| Lund : , : Nordic Academic Press, , [2014] | ||
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