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This is a study of the evidence in art, artifact, architecture, and poetry that the myth of Yggdrasil, the cosmic tree of life associated with the gods, the runes, fate, and ragnarok in Norse/Germanic mythology, was associated in northern Christianity with the cross of Christ. The events of the story of Yggdrasil were seen as a kind of foreshadowing for the events in the New Testament, especially the crucifixion and resurrection, and the ultimate salvation of human beings from death and their corpses from the Nidhogg.

Christianity and other religions --- Mythology, Norse. --- Yggrasil (Norse mythology) --- Norse.

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Les poèmes mythologiques et héroïques, la version en prose de Snorri Sturluson (le plus grand écrivain et mythographe islandais du Moyen-Âge, 1178-1241) de l’Edda sont les sources littéraires de cette étude mythologique. Chaque dieu est présenté avec ses attributs et ses fonctions à la faveur des textes qui le concernent et des mythes qui s’y rattachent sans faire l’impasse sur les incertitudes et les doutes de la recherche passée et actuelle. S’étendant sur 2 500 ans et sur un espace vivifié par les Vikings qui va du Groenland à Constantinople, du Nord de la Suède à Gibraltar, ce corpus de croyances païennes offre naturellement de singulières distorsions et présente cependant de confondantes continuités thématiques. À l’aide de l’archéologie, l’histoire, la littérature, l’onomastique et la linguistique, entre autres sciences, cet ouvrage fait non seulement le point sur les connaissances actuelles, mais encore bat en brèche certaines interprétations traditionnelles qui voudraient privilégier le côté martial alors que la civilisation où s’est développée cette mythologie a pour trait fondamental la troisième fonction dumézilienne.

Gods, Norse. --- Mythology, Norse. --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Norse gods --- runes --- Moyen-Âge --- mythologie --- Edda --- religion --- viking

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Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.

Old Norse literature --- Mythology, Norse. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- History and criticism.

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Myth presents the latest interdisciplinary research by graduate students in the fields of German and Scandinavian studies, compiling papers that were introduced at the eponymous 2008 graduate student conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Focusing on myths in and about German and Scandinavian societies, these essays provide exemplary analyses of how cultural and social practices mutually inform and influence each other. This anthology is primarily intended for scholars acros...

Mythology, Germanic --- Mythology, Norse --- Folklore --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Germanic mythology --- Mythology, Teutonic --- Teutonic mythology

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Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions explores the traditions of two fascinating and contiguous cultures in north-western Europe. History regularly brought these two peoples into contact, most prominently with the viking invasion of Ireland. In the famous Second Battle of Mag Tuired, gods such as Lug, Balor, and the Dagda participated in the conflict that distinguished this invasion. Pseudohistory, which consists of both secular and ecclesiastical fictions, arose in this nexus of peoples and myth and spilled over into other contexts such as chronological annals. Scandinavian gods such as Odin, Balder, Thor, and Loki feature in the Edda of Snorri Sturluson and the history of the Danes by Saxo Grammaticus. This volume explores such written works alongside archaeological evidence from earlier periods through fresh approaches that challenge entrenched views.

Mythology, Celtic. --- Mythology, Norse. --- History --- Celtic. --- Scandinavian. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Celtic mythology --- Celts --- History. --- Scandinavia --- Mythology, Vikings, Irish Pagan Gods, Saxo Grammaticus, Snorri Sturluson.