9789185509713 - More Than Mythology: Narratives, Ritual Practices and Regional Distribution in Pre-Christian Scandinavian Religions (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good +. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 6". 287pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Creasing and rubbing to front and rear of jacket. Creasing to corners of inside flaps. Faint black stains to inside cover from boards. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Mild rubbing to boards. Gentle bump to corner of rear board. Faint dust-spotting to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Written by distinguished scholars from multiple perspectives, this account widens the interpretative scope on religious life among the pre-Christian Scandinavian people. The religion of the Viking Age is conventionally identified through its mythology: the ambiguous character Odin, the forceful Thor, and the end of the world approaching in Ragnarök. However, pre-Christian religion consisted of so much more than mythic imagery and legends and has long lingered in folk tradition. Exploring the religion of the North through an interdisciplinary approach, the book sheds new light on a number of topics, including rituals, gender relations, social hierarchies, and interregional contacts between the Nordic tradition and the Sami and Finnish regions.(Publisher).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a very good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Contains nine pieces (plus an Introduction) by various authors on aspects of the pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia (Nordic, also Sami and Finnish). The pieces are "The Study of Pre-Christian Scandinavian Religions: Trends and Perspectives" by Catharina Raudvere & Jens Peter Schjödt, "Mythic Acts: Materian Narratives of the Dead in Viking Age Scandinavia" by Neil Price, "The Merits and Limits of Caomarative Philology: Old Norse Religious Vocabulary in a Long-Term Perspective" by Peter Jackson, "Diets and Deities: Contrastive Livelihoods and Animal Symbolism in Nordic Pre-Christian Religions" by Thomas A DuBois, "Fictive Rituals in Völuspá: Mythological Narration between Agency and Structure in the Representation of Reality" by Catharina Raudvere, "Continuity, Change and Regional Variation in Old Norse Religion" by Andreas Nordberg, "Gender, Sexuality and the Supranormal: Finnish Oral-Traditional Sources" by Laura Stark, "Literary Representation of Oral Religion: Organizing Principles in Mikael Agricola's List of Mythological Agents in Late Medieval Finland" by Veikko Anttonen, " "Religious Ruler Ideology in Pre-Christian Scandinavia: A Contextual Approach" by Olof Sundqvist, and "Reflections on Aims and Methods in the Study od Old Norse Religion" by Jens Peter Schjödt. 287pp, a few b&w illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.