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The product of an international interdisciplinary team, the 'History and Structures' strand of the 'Pre-Christian Religion of the North' series aims to approach the subject by giving equal weight to archaeological and textual sources, taking into consideration recent theories on religion within all the disciplines that are needed in order to gain a comprehensive view of the religious history and world view of pre-Christian Scandinavia from the perspective the beginning of the twenty-first century. Volume I presents the basic premises of the study and a consideration of the sources: memory and oral tradition, written sources, religious vocabulary, place names and personal names, archaeology, and images. Volume II treats the social, geographical, and historical contexts in which the religion was practiced and through which it can be understood. This volume also includes communication between worlds, primarily through various ritual structures. Volume III explores conceptual frameworks: the cosmos and collective supernatural beings (notions regarding the cosmos and regarding such collective supernatural beings as the norns, valkyries, giants, and dwarfs) and also gods and goddesses.00Volume IV describes the process of Christianization in the Nordic region and also includes a bibliography and indices for the entire four-volume work.

Mythology, Norse. --- Religion --- Historiography. --- History. --- Europe, Northern --- Europe, Northern. --- Religion. --- 293.1 --- 293.1 Godsdiensten van de Germaanse Scandinaviërs. Germaanse mythologie. Edda's.Saga's --- Godsdiensten van de Germaanse Scandinaviërs. Germaanse mythologie. Edda's.Saga's

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902 <48> --- 903 <48> --- 293.1 --- Northmen --- -Northmen --- -Norsemen --- Ethnology --- Archeologie--Skandinavië --- Prehistorie--Skandinavië --- Godsdiensten van de Germaanse Scandinaviërs. Germaanse mythologie. Edda's.Saga's --- Religion --- -Congresses --- Congresses --- Congresses. --- -Archeologie--Skandinavië --- 293.1 Godsdiensten van de Germaanse Scandinaviërs. Germaanse mythologie. Edda's.Saga's --- 903 <48> Prehistorie--Skandinavië --- 902 <48> Archeologie--Skandinavië --- -293.1 Godsdiensten van de Germaanse Scandinaviërs. Germaanse mythologie. Edda's.Saga's --- Norsemen --- Religion&delete&

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293.1 --- Godsdiensten van de Germaanse Scandinaviërs. Germaanse mythologie. Edda's.Saga's --- 293.1 Godsdiensten van de Germaanse Scandinaviërs. Germaanse mythologie. Edda's.Saga's --- Gods, Norse --- Mythology, Norse --- Paganism --- Civilization, Pagan --- Heathenism --- Religions --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Norse gods --- Gods, Norse. --- Mythology, Norse.

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Gods, Germanic --- Dieux germaniques --- Mythologie germanique --- Dieux nordiques --- -Gods, Germanic --- -Germanic gods --- Germanic mythology --- Mythology, Teutonic --- Teutonic mythology --- -293.1 --- 293.1 Godsdiensten van de Germaanse Scandinaviërs. Germaanse mythologie. Edda's.Saga's --- Godsdiensten van de Germaanse Scandinaviërs. Germaanse mythologie. Edda's.Saga's --- Germanic gods --- Mythology, Germanic --- 293.1 --- Dictionaries --- Dictionnaires anglais --- Mythology [Germanic ] --- Gods [Germanic ] --- Gods, Germanic - Dictionaries.

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The history of the Far North is tinged by dark fantasies. A remote location, harsh climate, a boundless and often mountainous wasteland, complex ethnic composition, and strange ways of life: all contributed to how the edge of Europe was misunderstood by outsiders. Since ancient times, the North has been considered as a place that exuded evil: it was the end of the world, the abode of monsters and supernatural beings, of magicians and sorcerers. It was Europe’s last bastion of recalcitrant paganism. Many weird tales of the North even came from within the region itself, and when newly literate Scandinavians began to re-work their oral traditions into written form after 1100 AD, these myths of their past underlay newer legends and stories serving to support the development to Christian national monarchies. The essays in this volume engage closely with these stories, questioning how and why such traditions developed, and exploring their meaning. Through this approach, the volume also examines how historiographical traditions were shaped by authors pursuing agendas of nation-building and Christianization, at the same time that myths surrounding and originating among the multi-ethnic populations of the Far North continued to dominate the perception of the region and its people, and to define their place in Norwegian medieval history.

Folklore and history --- Norway, Northern --- Norway --- Folklore. --- Social life and customs. --- Religious life and customs. --- History --- Folk-lore and history --- History and folklore --- Nord-Norge --- North Norway --- Northern Norway --- 293.1 --- 293.1 Godsdiensten van de Germaanse Scandinaviërs. Germaanse mythologie. Edda's.Saga's --- Godsdiensten van de Germaanse Scandinaviërs. Germaanse mythologie. Edda's.Saga's --- Folklore --- Social life and customs --- Religious life and customs