TRACING OLD NORSE COSMOLOGY : the world tree, middle earth, and the sun from archaeological perspectives

Studien av fornnordisk kosmologi utforskar relationen mellan arkeologi och isländsk litteraturtradition för att förstå universums ordning och tid.

• Utforskar Old Norse religion och kosmologi.

• Förenar arkeologi med medeltida isländsk litteratur.

• Utgiven som häftat band, 2021.

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Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: Nordic Academic Press
ISBN: 9789188909619
Bokserie: Vägar till Midgård

Omfång: 247 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2021-08-31

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The ideas of an ordered universe and notions of 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 traced in images and material culture from Scandinavian prehistory. This fascinating study is vital for researchers and anyone with an interest in Old Norse history.

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 by a vast number of scholars. They have long relied on the rich and varied Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages, but a growing body of material culture from pagan Scandinavia has recently started to have an impact on current research.

In Tracing Old Norse Cosmology, Anders Andrén argues that the fundamental ideas of an ordered universe and notions of 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 traced in images and material culture from different parts of Scandinavian prehistory.

By combining these prehistoric representations with the later written record, Andrén offers a long view on Old Norse cosmology, including the periods of fundamental change. This fascinating and nuanced study is essential reading for all researchers in the field archaeologists, art historians, and scholars of literature and religion as well as anyone with an interest in Old Norse history.

Tracing Old Norse Cosmology hittar du under Skandinavisk historia inom Historia | Arkeologi i huvudkategorin Humaniora.

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