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Old Norse Folklore

- Magic, Witchcraft, and Charms in Medieval Scandinavia
Af: Stephen A. Mitchell Engelsk Paperback

Old Norse Folklore

- Magic, Witchcraft, and Charms in Medieval Scandinavia
Af: Stephen A. Mitchell Engelsk Paperback
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The second volume of Old Norse Folklore explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft, covering syncretism, continuity, survival, and the reconstruction of pagan beliefs and cultic practices in this last area of western Europe to be Christianized. This volume not only considers these issues but also pulls back the curtain on more obscure, yet important, corners of Nordic magico-religious tradition.

In these chapters, Stephen A. Mitchell draws on materials from many different periods of the vast Nordic world, stretching from Greenland to the Baltic, and examines such diverse witnesses as sagas, judicial records, ballads, synodal statutes, runes, proverbs, church murals, leechbooks, and the language used to discuss magic and its actors. Old Norse Folklore addresses how theology helped to shape the Nordic magical world and how language can reveal this world, how magic was used as a practical matter in (and what it meant philosophically to) the medieval Nordic world, and how inherited traditions between and among the historically connected societies of northern Europe impacted cultural developments in late medieval Scandinavia.

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The second volume of Old Norse Folklore explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft, covering syncretism, continuity, survival, and the reconstruction of pagan beliefs and cultic practices in this last area of western Europe to be Christianized. This volume not only considers these issues but also pulls back the curtain on more obscure, yet important, corners of Nordic magico-religious tradition.

In these chapters, Stephen A. Mitchell draws on materials from many different periods of the vast Nordic world, stretching from Greenland to the Baltic, and examines such diverse witnesses as sagas, judicial records, ballads, synodal statutes, runes, proverbs, church murals, leechbooks, and the language used to discuss magic and its actors. Old Norse Folklore addresses how theology helped to shape the Nordic magical world and how language can reveal this world, how magic was used as a practical matter in (and what it meant philosophically to) the medieval Nordic world, and how inherited traditions between and among the historically connected societies of northern Europe impacted cultural developments in late medieval Scandinavia.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 318
ISBN-13: 9781501777509
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1501777505
Udg. Dato: 15 feb 2025
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 228mm
Forlag: Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato: 15 feb 2025
Forfatter(e): Stephen A. Mitchell
Forfatter(e) Stephen A. Mitchell


Kategori Antikken & Middelalder


ISBN-13 9781501777509


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 318


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 152mm


Højde 228mm


Udg. Dato 15 feb 2025


Oplagsdato 15 feb 2025


Forlag Cornell University Press

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