Tangible Religion: Amulets, Illnesses, and the Demonic Seven Sisters
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Publisher:Stockholm University Press
By: Rudolf Simek and Olof Sundqvist
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Introduction
Gold is Red: Sigurðarkviða en skamma 49–50
Halls, Gods, and Giants: The Enigma of Gullveig in Óðinn’s Hall
Mercury – Wotan – Óðinn: One or Many?
Myth on Stone and Tapestry: Ragnarøk in Pictures?
Ormhäxan, Dragons, Partuition and Tradition
Re-Interpretations of Gotlandic Picture Stones Based on the Reflectance Transformation Imaging Method (RTI): Some Examples
Gold Foil Figures and Norse Mythology: Fact and Fiction?
Finitude: Human and Animal Sacrifice in a Norse Setting
Understanding Embodiment Through Lived Religion: A Look at Vernacular Physiologies in an Old Norse Milieu
Animals of Sacrifice: Animals and the Blót in the Old Norse Sources and Ritual Depositions of Bones from Archaeological Sites
Configurations of Religion in Late Iron Age and Viking Age Scandinavia
Tangible Religion: Amulets, Illnesses, and the Demonic Seven Sisters
What does Óðinn do to the Túnriðor? An Interpretation of Hávamál 155
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PDF ISBN: 978-91-7635-096-6 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-91-7635-097-3 | Hardback ISBN: 978-91-7635-099-7 | Mobi ISBN: 978-91-7635-098-0 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bay
Publisher: Stockholm University Press
Publication date: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 446
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