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A Piece of Horse Liver: Myth, Ritual and Folklore in Old Icelandic Sources - Softcover

Adalsteinsson, Jon Hnefill

 
9789979542643: A Piece of Horse Liver: Myth, Ritual and Folklore in Old Icelandic Sources
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9979542640 ISBN 13: 9789979542643
Verlag: ICELAND UNIV PR, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

A collection of eight lectures, now translated into English, which clearly reappraise Old Norse religion and Old Icelandic folk beliefs. Topics include a reinterpretation of the gods and giants of Old Norse, including their genealogy, their conflicts and relationships with all nature. Adelsteinsson also considers efforts by saga writers to unite elements of Christianity and earlier beliefs. He examines sagas to find evidence for animal and human sacrifice, such as the night-time murder of a young couple in bed at the end of an autumn sacrifice recounted in Gísla saga Súrssonar . This appealing book concludes with discussions of giants and elves and the art of wrestling with ghosts: a phenomenon that is still recorded in Iceland today. Extracts are presented in Old Icelandic with English translations.

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Verlag
ICELAND UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9979542640
ISBN 13 
9789979542643
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
188
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