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A storm of swords and spears: The weapon dancer as an enduring symbol in prehistoric Scandinavia
- Art
- 2020
Abstract The past fifteen years have witnessed increasing effort to study and understand the belief system of Bronze Age Scandinavia. Different forms of material culture—including rock art and…
References
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Cassell Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend
- History
- 1997
The myths of the Scandinavian gods and heroes permeated everyday life in Iceland and the northern reaches of Europe for over a millennium before the arrival of Christianity. Since that time, they…
The Kivik Petroglyphs. A Reassessment of Different Opinions
- History
- 1993
Ever since its fateful discovery by farmers, who were looking for building materials, the famous Kivik tomb2 has been subject to a wild variety of often opposing and confusing theories. Almost 250…
From Myth to Fiction: The Saga of Hadingus@@@The Destiny of a King
- Art
- 1973
In this work the distinguished religious historian Georges Dumezil considers how the early mythology of a people can be creatively transposed into theepic of their origin or the "history" of their…
In Search of the Indo-Europeans / Language, Archaeology and Myth
- History
- 1992
An archaeological and linguistic monograph on the origins and expansion of the Indo-European
Behind Heathendom: Archaeological Studies of Old Norse Religion
- History
- 2005
This paper offers a synthesis of a large body of research into the "Old Norse religion" which has been conducted as part of a multidisciplinary research projekt - Vagar till Midgard - Roads to…
Gods of the ancient Northmen
- History
- 1980
Mr. Davies in this historical study examines first the territorial doctrine of the Hebrew Scriptures and other Jewish sources and then progresses into the early Christian period to see how the…