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More than mythology : narratives, ritual practices and regional distribution in pre-Christian Scandinavian religions / edited by Catharina Raudvere & Jens Peter Schjødt.

Title
More than mythology : narratives, ritual practices and regional distribution in pre-Christian Scandinavian religions / edited by Catharina Raudvere & Jens Peter Schjødt.
Publication
Lund : Nordic Academic Press, [2012]

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Additional Authors
  • Raudvere, Catharina.
  • Raudvere, Catharina
  • Schjødt, Jens Peter
Description
287 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Mythology, Norse
  • Northmen > Religion
  • Scandinavia > Religion
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The study of pre-Christian Scandinavian religions -- Mythic acts -- The merits and limits of comparative philology -- Diet and deities -- Fictive rituals in Völuspá -- Continuity, change and regional variation in Old Norse religion -- Gender, sexuality and the supranormal -- Literary representation of oral religion -- 'religious ruler ideology' in pre-Christian Scandinavia -- Reflections on aims and methods in the study of Old Norse religion.
ISBN
9789185509713
LCCN
^^2012394710
OCLC
  • 792879997
  • SCSB-11051262
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library