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100 1 _aAndrén, Anders,
_d1952-
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245 1 0 _aTracing old Norse cosmology :
_bthe world tree, middle earth, and the sun from archaeological perspectives /
_cAnders Andrén.
264 1 _aLund :
_bNordic Academic Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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490 1 _aVägar till Midgård ;
_v16
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 193-230) and index.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
505 0 _aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Old Norse cosmology as an archaeological challenge; Cosmological aspects of Old Norse religion; The chronological and spatial horizons of Old Norse cosmology; Archaeology and Old Norse cosmology; Three archaeological studies; 2. In the shadow of Yggdrasill; Mythological trees; Real trees; Representations of trees; The archaeology of 'tree settings'; The semiotics of the 'tree settings'; The world from the view-point of 'tree settings'; The tree in Old Norse religion; 3. A world of stone; A biography of Ismantorp; Ölandic comparisons.
505 8 _aScandinavian fortsOutlines of an early Scandinavian martial culture; War as ritualized action; War and cosmology; Models and parallels; Back to Ismantorp; Ismantorp and Old Norse cosmology; 4. Whirls, horses, and ships; Early picture stones on Gotland; New contexts; An initial pictorial analysis; A return trip to Bronze Age iconography; Bridging the gap between Eskelhem and Sanda; Bronze Age perspectives on early Gotlandic picture stones; Metalwork in the Iron Age; A special case: the gold bracteates; Iron Age perspectives on early Gotlandic picture stones.
505 8 _aThe sun in later mythological contextsTracing sun rituals; The disappearance of solar symbols and sun rituals in the sixth century; Solar traditions through time; 5. Placing Old Norse cosmology in time and space; Different trajectories; The Migration Period as a cluster of changes; The Huns; The dust veil; The disappearance of the sun-oriented traditions in the sixth century; A golden age; Outlines of a new context; References; Primary Old Norse sources; Other primary sources and secondary literature.
520 _aThe 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 relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén offers a long-term perspective on Old Norse cosmology and argues that the fundamental ideas of an ordered universe, 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.
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650 0 _aCosmology, Norse.
650 0 _aMythology, Norse.
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650 7 _aHISTORY
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650 7 _aCosmology, Norse.
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