The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

skaldic verse and prohibitions in provincial laws, and by a few medieval literary sources. These types of sacrificial offerings ...

The concept of ár ‘good harvest, good crops’ occurs in various ritual formulas, the most well known being ár ok friðr ‘good crop ...

Old Norse texts. The vo ̨lva appears to have a long continuity in Scandinavia since Germanic prophetesses like Veleda were renow ...

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ( 1 ) THE OLD NORSE GODS Jens Peter Schjødt O ur knowledge of the Old Norse gods stems mostly from medieval sour ...

special devotees. It is related how he hung on the world-tree for nine nights in order to obtain the runes, how he went into a m ...

of Loki, and it seems as if his main characteristic is that he is defending the cosmos against chaos, but, unlike Óðinn, with ph ...

Kershaw, K. ( 2000 ) The One-Eyed God. Odin and the (Indo)-Germanic Männerbünde (Journal of Indo-European Studies. Monograph 36 ...

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ( 2 ) CULT LEADERS, RULERS AND RELIGION Olof Sundqvist A n important aspect of religious and social life was the ...

The word is derived from ON goð ‘god’, thus indicating a cultic function. The goði cared for the cult of specific gods, at the c ...

the wealth of the spear-bridge allows the merry messengers of the gods to inhabit the sanctuaries.’ This information has been as ...

‘Sakralkönigtum’ (Sitzungsberichte der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Philologisch-historische Klasse 109 : ...

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ( 3 ) RULERS AS OFFSPRING OF GODS AND GIANTESSES: ON THE MYTHOLOGY OF PAGAN NORSE RULERSHIP Gro Steinsland O ne ...

In earlier research Skírnismál was primarily looked upon as a myth of vegetation. The classical analysis of Magnus Olsen ( 1909 ...

The hieros gamos myth is thus multi-functional. The genealogical function has been in focus here so far, but the giantess has ot ...

Middle Ages and argued that the marriage myth is in use as an underlying pattern in the narratives about the alliance between th ...

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ( 4 ) THE CREATION OF OLD NORSE MYTHOLOGY Margaret Clunies Ross T he word ‘mythology’ refers to a body of myths ...

strictly speaking, the modern interpreter is recreating an Old Norse myth from the evidence provided by a Viking Age object, its ...

understand mythological references in early skaldic verse is to follow the lead of the major medieval Scandinavian mythographers ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Ármann Jakobsson, Lassen, A. and Ney, A. (eds) ( 2003 ) Fornaldarsagornas struktur och ideologi, Uppsala: Swedish S ...

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN POPULAR RELIGION IN THE VIKING AGE Catharina Raudvere T he assignment of presenting the popular religion of th ...