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Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend

  • Format
  • Bog, hardback
  • Engelsk
  • 302 sider

Beskrivelse

Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters and the Dead.A particular, recurring feature of Old Norse myths and legends is an encounter between creatures of This World [gods and human beings] and those of the Other [giants, giantesses, dwarves, prophetesses, monsters and the dead]. Concentrating on cross-gendered encounters, this book analyses these meetings, and the different motifs and situations they encompass, from the consultation of a prophetess by a king or god, to sexual liaisons and return from the dead. It considers the evidence for their pre-Christian origins, discusses how far individual poets and prose writers were free to modify them, and suggests that they survived in medieval Christian society because [like folk-tale] they provide a non-dogmatic way of resolving social and psychological problems connected with growing up, succession from one generation to the next, sexual relationships and bereavement.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal302
  • Udgivelsesdato15-05-2005
  • ISBN139781843840428
  • Forlag D.S. Brewer
  • FormatHardback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt616 g
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
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    15,6 cm
    23,4 cm

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