Christopher Abram: Myths of the Pagan North

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Cover: 9781847252470 | Myths of the Pagan North | The Gods of the Norsemen | Abram | Buch

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Beschreibung

As the Vikings began to migrate overseas as raiders or settlers in the late eighth century, there is evidence that this new way of life, centred on warfare, commerce and exploration, brought with it a warrior ethos that gradually became codified in the Viking myths, notably in the cult of Odin, the god of war, magic and poetry, and chief god in the Norse pantheon.

The twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when most of Scandinavia had long since been converted to Christianity, form perhaps the most important era in the history of Norse mythology: only at this point were the myths of Thor, Freyr and Odin first recorded in written form. Using archaeological sources to take us further back in time than any written document,Â the accounts of foreign writers like the Roman historian Tacitus, and the most important repository of stories of the gods, old Norse poetry and the Edda, Christopher Abram leads the reader into the lost world of the Norse gods.

Über den Autor

Christopher Abram is Lecturer in Medieval Scandinavian Studies at University College, London where he teaches Old Norse mythology, literature and language. He has published scholarly articles on eddic poetry and is working on a volume about the transmission of the Icelandic eddas.

Zusammenfassung

Unravels the cults of fertility, death and war that shaped the Norse myths.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / 1. The Sources of Norse Mythology / 2. The Gods on the Ground / 3. Myths in the Viking Age / 4. The Twilight of the Gods / 5. Pagan Myths under Conversion / 6. The Rebirth of Norse Mythology

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Mittelalter
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	274
ISBN-13:	9781847252470
ISBN-10:	1847252478
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Abram, Christopher
Hersteller:	Continuum
Maße:	240 x 161 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Christopher Abram
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.03.2011
Gewicht:	0,58 kg

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