Nordic Religions In The Viking Age

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Nordic Religions In The Viking Age

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Author : Thomas Andrew DuBois
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1999-08-03

Nordic Religions In The Viking Age written by Thomas Andrew DuBois and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-03 with History categories.

Thomas DuBois unravels for the first time the history of the Nordic religions in the Viking Age. "A seminal study of Nordic religions that future scholars will not be able to avoid."—Church History

Conversion And Identity In The Viking Age

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Author : Ildar H. Garipzanov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014

Conversion And Identity In The Viking Age written by Ildar H. Garipzanov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Christianity and other religions categories.

This volume presents a state-of-the-art collection of essays on the socio-cultural aspects of the conversion to Christianity in Viking-Age Scandinavia and the Scandinavian colonies of the North Atlantic. The nine scholars, drawn from the disciplines of history, archaeology, and literary studies, have been brought together to address the overarching topic of how conversion affected peoples' identities - both as individuals, and as members of broader religious, political, and social groups - on either side of the 'divide' between paganism and Christianity. Central to this exploration is the question of how existing and changing identities shaped the progress of conversion as a process of societal, and more specifically cultural, change. Each of the papers in this volume provides examples of the complicated patterns of interaction, influence, and identity-modification that were characteristic of the transition from paganism to Christianity in the Viking world. The authors look for new ways of understanding and describing this gradual intermingling between the two fuzzy-edged religious communities, and they provide a challenging redefinition of the nature of conversion in the Viking Age that will be of interest both to a wide variety of medievalists and to all those who work on conversion in its theoretical and historical aspects.

Old Norse Religion In Long Term Perspectives

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Author : Anders Andrén
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01

Old Norse Religion In Long Term Perspectives written by Anders Andrén and has been published by Nordic Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.

The study of Old Norse Religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia are investigated and interpreted by archaeologists, historians, art historians, historians of religion as well as scholars of literature, onomastics and Scandinavian studies. For obvious reasons, these studies belong to the main curricula in Scandinavia but are also carried out at many other universities in Europe, the United States and Australia a fact that is evident to any reader of this book. In order to bring this broad and varied field of research together, an international conference on Old Norse religion was held in Lund in June 2004. About two hundred delegates from more than fifteen countries took part. The intention was to gather researchers to encourage and improve scholarly exchange and dialogue, and Old Norse religion in long-term perspectives presents a selection of the proceedings from that conference. The 75 contributions elucidate topics such as worldview and cosmology, ritual and religious practice, myth and memory as well as the reception and present-day use of Old Norse religion. The main editors of this volume have directed the multidisciplinary research project Roads to Midgard since 2000. The project is based at Lund University and funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.

Old Norse Religion In Long Term Perspectives

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Author : Anders Andrén
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
Release Date : 2006-01-12

Old Norse Religion In Long Term Perspectives written by Anders Andrén and has been published by Nordic Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-12 with Social Science categories.

Consisting of more than 70 papers written by scholars concerned with pre-Christian Norse religion, the articles discuss subjects such as archaeology, art history, historical archaeology, history, history of ideas, theological history, literature, onomastics, Scandinavian languages, and Scandinavian studies. The interdisciplinary aim of the book brings together text-based and material-based researchers to improve scholarly exchange and dialogue and provide a variety of contributions that elucidate topics such as worldview and cosmology, ritual and religious practice, myth and memory, as well as reception and present-day use of old Norse religion.

Old Norse Religion In Long Term Perspectives

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Author : Anders Andrén
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
Release Date : 2006-01-12

Old Norse Religion In Long Term Perspectives written by Anders Andrén and has been published by Nordic Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-12 with Social Science categories.

Consisting of more than 70 papers written by scholars concerned with pre-Christian Norse religion, the articles discuss subjects such as archaeology, art history, historical archaeology, history, history of ideas, theological history, literature, onomastics, Scandinavian languages, and Scandinavian studies. The interdisciplinary aim of the book brings together text-based and material-based researchers to improve scholarly exchange and dialogue and provide a variety of contributions that elucidate topics such as worldview and cosmology, ritual and religious practice, myth and memory, as well as reception and present-day use of old Norse religion.

The Viking Way

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Author : Neil S. Price
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 2002

The Viking Way written by Neil S. Price and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Archaelogy and religion categories.

Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this may really have meant to the men and women of the time. This book examines the evidence for Old Norse sorcery, looking at its meaning and function, practice and practitioners, and the complicated constructions of gender and sexual identity with which these were underpinned. Combining strong elements of eroticism and aggression, sorcery appears as a fundamental domain of women's power, linking them with the gods, the dead and the future. Their battle spells and combat rituals complement the men's physical acts of fighting, in a supernatural empowerment of the Viking way of life. What emerges is a fundamentally new image of the world in which the Vikings understood themselves to move, in which magic and its implications permeated every aspect of a society permanently geared for war. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Neil Price takes us with him on a tour through the sights and sounds of this undiscovered country, meeting its human and otherworldly inhabitants, including the Sami with whom the Norse partly shared this mental landscape. On the way we explore Viking notions of the mind and soul, the fluidity of the boundaries that they drew between humans and animals, and the immense variety of their spiritual beliefs. We find magic in the Vikings' bedrooms and on their battlefields, and we meet the sorcerers themselves through their remarkable burials and the tools of their trade. Combining archaeology, history and literary scholarship with extensive studies of Germanic and circumpolar religion, this multi-award-winning book shows us the Vikings as we have never seen them before.

The Viking Age As A Period Of Religious Transformation

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Author : Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2011

The Viking Age As A Period Of Religious Transformation written by Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Archaeology and religion categories.

70 b/w illus, 14 b/w tbls, 14 b/w line art

The Demise Of Norse Religion

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Author : Olof Sundqvist
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-12-18

The Demise Of Norse Religion written by Olof Sundqvist and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-18 with History categories.

When describing the transition from Old Norse religion to Christianity in recent studies, the concept of "Christianization" is often applied. To a large extent this historiography focuses on the outcome of the encounter, namely the description of early Medieval Christianity and the new Christian society. The purpose of the present study is to concentrate more exclusively on the Old Norse religion during this period of change and to analyze the processes behind its disappearance on an official level of the society. More specifically this study concentrates on the role of Viking kings and indigenous agency in the winding up of the old religion. An actor-oriented perspective will thus be established, which focuses on the actions, methods and strategies applied by the early Christian Viking kings when dismantling the religious tradition that had previously formed their lives. In addition, the resistance that some pagan chieftains offered against these Christian kings is discussed as well as the question why they defended the old religious tradition.

More Than Mythology

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Author : Catharina Raudvere
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
Release Date : 2012-01-07

More Than Mythology written by Catharina Raudvere and has been published by Nordic Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-07 with Social Science categories.

Written by distinguished scholars from multiple perspectives, this account widens the interpretative scope on religious life among the pre-Christian Scandinavian people. The religion of the Viking Age is conventionally identified through its mythology: the ambiguous character Odin, the forceful Thor, and the end of the world approaching in Ragnarök. However, pre-Christian religion consisted of so much more than mythic imagery and legends and has long lingered in folk tradition. Exploring the religion of the North through an interdisciplinary approach, the book sheds new light on a number of topics, including rituals, gender relations, social hierarchies, and interregional contacts between the Nordic tradition and the Sami and Finnish regions.

Death Doesn T Discriminate

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Author : Taylor Hathcock
language : en
Publisher: Taylor Hathcock
Release Date : 2022-03-30

Death Doesn T Discriminate written by Taylor Hathcock and has been published by Taylor Hathcock this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-30 with History categories.

Why were Scandinavian women such active proponents to Christian conversion? A question which has found itself recurrent in conversion literature. This book is a preliminary investigation which explores women in Norse and Christian mythology highlighting their similarities and discussing the roles of Christian women and Norse pre-Christian women again highlighting similarities between the two in order to show that some outlying factor was responsible for women's decision to convert to Christianity.