Tracing Old Norse cosmology : the world tree, Middle Earth and the sun in archeaological perspectives

• Autore: Andrén Anders
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : Nordic Academic Press, 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 pages)
• Disciplina: 293
• Soggetto topico: Cosmology, Norse - Religion - Scandinavia; Mythology, Norse; Northmen; Archaeology and religion
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Tracing Old Norse cosmology
• ISBN: 91-87675-01-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910493166203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II