Old Norse mythology:
Introduction -- From Cosmogony to Cosmic Eschatology -- The System of Old Norse Mythology -- Old Norse Mythology as Sacred Narrative Þórr's fishing expedition -- Old Norse Mythology and Learned Medieval Speculation -- Old Norse Mythology and Ideology (and Entertainment) -- Conclusion
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
[2021]
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| Schriftenreihe: | World mythology in theory in everyday life
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| Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- From Cosmogony to Cosmic Eschatology -- The System of Old Norse Mythology -- Old Norse Mythology as Sacred Narrative Þórr's fishing expedition -- Old Norse Mythology and Learned Medieval Speculation -- Old Norse Mythology and Ideology (and Entertainment) -- Conclusion "This book treats from the perspective of the series "World mythologies in theory and in everyday life" the body of texts from medieval Scandinavia, mostly Iceland, usually known as "Norse mythology" or "Scandinavian mythology." Specifically, it constitutes a case study of a "literary or textual mythology," that is, a mythology from the past that we know only through written texts that have been left to us, augmented in a few cases by artifacts and images. This case is particularly interesting because the texts (with a tiny handful of enigmatic exceptions) were recorded centuries after the Nordic peoples had abandoned the religion associated with the mythology and converted to Christianity. The mythology lived on without direct connection to ritual activity or religious conviction. Drawing both on sources from before the conversion and on comparative analysis, it is certainly possible to reach informed inferences about the mythology before the conversion to Christianity-that is, when it existed as part of the pre-Christian religion of the Nordic peoples and their successors. From the perspective of the mythologies of the world, what is perhaps most important about these inferences is that this pre-Christian mythology was not a canonical mythology, since it almost certainly lacked a canon of sacred texts such as one finds in the great world religions of today. The focus of the book is not the mythology in and of itself, as would be true of a handbook, but rather how particular historical and intellectual circumstances formed conceptions about it."-- |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 231 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780197554487 9780190852252 |
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|---|---|
| adam_text | WORLD
YTHOLOCY
I
N
TH
I
OR
.
ANO
VER
L
*
PAV
LI
FT
SERIES
EDITORS:
TOK
THOMPSON
AND
GREGORY
SCHREMPP
THIS
SERIES
PRESENTS
AN
INNOVATIVE
AND
ACCESSIBLE
OVERVIEW
OF
THE
WORLD S
MYTHOLOGICAL
TRADITIONS.
THE
INAUGURAL
VOLUME
PROVIDES
A
THEORETICAL
INTRODUCTION
TO
THE
STUDY
OF
MYTH,
WHILE
THE
INDIVIDUAL
CASE
STUDIES
FROM
THROUGHOUT
TIME
AND
AROUND
THE
WORLD
HELP
GUIDE
THE
READER
THROUGH
THE
WONDROUS
COMPLEXITY
AND
DIVERSITY
OF
MYTHS,
AND
THEIR
WIDESPREAD
INFLUENCES
IN
HUMAN
CULTURES,
SOCIETIES,
AND
EVERYDAY
LIVES.
JOHN
LINDOW S
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
OFFERS
READERS
A
COMPREHENSIVE
AND
METICULOUS
LY
RENDERED
OVERVIEW
OF
PRE-CHRISTIAN
NORDIC
MYTHOLOGY,
PUNCTUATED
WITH
EXCELLENT
ANALYSES
ILLUSTRATING
BOTH
THE
RICHNESS
AND
THE
COMPLEXITY
OF
WORKING
WITH
TEXTUAL
AND
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
EVIDENCE
DRAWN
FROM
OVER
A
MILLENNIUM
AND
ACROSS
A
CONTINENT-SIZE
AREA
OF
NORTHERN
EUROPE.
MAKING
SENSE
OF
SUCH
DISPARATE
MATERIALS
IS
THE
ULTIMATE
THREE-DIMENSIONAL
CHESS
GAME,
AND
IN
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY,
LINDOW
DEMONSTRATES
WHY
HE
IS
THE
RIGHT
CHESS
MASTER
TO
WATCH.
*
STEPHEN
MITCHELL,
HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
PROVIDES
A
UNIQUE
SURVEY
OF
THE
MYTHOLOGY
OF
SCANDINAVIA:
THE
GODS
PORR
(THOR)
WITH
HIS
HAMMER,
THE
WILY
AND
DUPLICITOUS
OBINN
(ODIN),
THE
SLY
LOKI,
AND
OTHER
FASCINATING
FIGURES.
THEY
CREATE
THE
WORLD,
BATTLE
THEIR
ENEMIES,
AND
DIE
AT
THE
END
OF
THE
WORLD,
WHICH
ARISES
ANEW
WITH
A
NEW
GENERATION
OF
GODS.
THESE
STORIES
WERE
THE
MYTHOLOGY
OF
THE
VIKINGS,
BUT
THEY
WERE
NOT
WRITTEN
DOWN
UNTIL
LONG
AFTER
THE
CONVERSION
TO
CHRISTIANITY,
MOSTLY
IN
ICELAND.
IN
ADDITION
TO
A
BROAD
OVERVIEW
OF
NORDIC
MYTHS,
THE
BOOK
PRESENTS
A
CASE
STUDY
OF
ONE
MYTH,
WHICH
TELLS
OF
HOW
PORR
FISHED
UP
THE
WORLD
SERPENT,
ANALYZING
THE
MYTH
AS
A
SACRED
TEXT
OF
THE
VIKINGS.
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
ALSO
EXPLORES
THE
DEBT
WE
OWE
TO
MEDIEVAL
INTELLECTUALS,
WHO
WERE
ABLE
TO
INCORPORATE
THE
OLD
MYTHS
INTO
NEW
PARADIGMS
THAT
HELPED
THE
MYTHS
TO
SURVIVE
WHEN
THEY
WERE
NO
LONGER
PART
OF
A
RELIGIOUS
SYSTEM.
THIS
SUPERB
INTRODUCTION
ALSO
TRACES
THE
USE
OF
THE
MYTHOLOGY
IN
IDEOLOGICAL
CONTEXTS,
FROM
THE
VIKING
AGE
UNTIL
THE
TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY.
JOHN
LINDOW
IS
PROFESSOR
EMERITUS
IN
THE
DEPARTMENT
OF
SCANDINAVIAN
AT
THE
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
|
VII
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
|
XI
INTRODUCTION:
FROM
ORAL
TO
WRITTEN
MYTHOLOGY
|
1
1.
FROM
COSMOGONY
TO
COSMIC
ESCHATOLOGY:
THE
SYSTEM
OF
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
|
18
2.
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
AS
SACRED
NARRATIVE:
LORR
S
FISHING
EXPEDITION
|
65
3.
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
AND
LEARNED
MEDIEVAL
SPECULATION
|
103
4.
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
AND
IDEOLOGY
(AND
ENTERTAINMENT)
|
133
CONCLUSION:
SACRED
NARRATIVE?
|
158
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
FURTHER
READINGS
|
167
RESOURCES
|
173
REFERENCES
|
21
1
INDEX
|
223
|
| adam_txt |
WORLD
YTHOLOCY
I
N
TH
I
OR
'.
ANO
VER
L
*
PAV
LI
FT
SERIES
EDITORS:
TOK
THOMPSON
AND
GREGORY
SCHREMPP
THIS
SERIES
PRESENTS
AN
INNOVATIVE
AND
ACCESSIBLE
OVERVIEW
OF
THE
WORLD'S
MYTHOLOGICAL
TRADITIONS.
THE
INAUGURAL
VOLUME
PROVIDES
A
THEORETICAL
INTRODUCTION
TO
THE
STUDY
OF
MYTH,
WHILE
THE
INDIVIDUAL
CASE
STUDIES
FROM
THROUGHOUT
TIME
AND
AROUND
THE
WORLD
HELP
GUIDE
THE
READER
THROUGH
THE
WONDROUS
COMPLEXITY
AND
DIVERSITY
OF
MYTHS,
AND
THEIR
WIDESPREAD
INFLUENCES
IN
HUMAN
CULTURES,
SOCIETIES,
AND
EVERYDAY
LIVES.
"JOHN
LINDOW'S
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
OFFERS
READERS
A
COMPREHENSIVE
AND
METICULOUS
LY
RENDERED
OVERVIEW
OF
PRE-CHRISTIAN
NORDIC
MYTHOLOGY,
PUNCTUATED
WITH
EXCELLENT
ANALYSES
ILLUSTRATING
BOTH
THE
RICHNESS
AND
THE
COMPLEXITY
OF
WORKING
WITH
TEXTUAL
AND
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
EVIDENCE
DRAWN
FROM
OVER
A
MILLENNIUM
AND
ACROSS
A
CONTINENT-SIZE
AREA
OF
NORTHERN
EUROPE.
MAKING
SENSE
OF
SUCH
DISPARATE
MATERIALS
IS
THE
ULTIMATE
THREE-DIMENSIONAL
CHESS
GAME,
AND
IN
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY,
LINDOW
DEMONSTRATES
WHY
HE
IS
THE
RIGHT
CHESS
MASTER
TO
WATCH."
*
STEPHEN
MITCHELL,
HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
PROVIDES
A
UNIQUE
SURVEY
OF
THE
MYTHOLOGY
OF
SCANDINAVIA:
THE
GODS
PORR
(THOR)
WITH
HIS
HAMMER,
THE
WILY
AND
DUPLICITOUS
OBINN
(ODIN),
THE
SLY
LOKI,
AND
OTHER
FASCINATING
FIGURES.
THEY
CREATE
THE
WORLD,
BATTLE
THEIR
ENEMIES,
AND
DIE
AT
THE
END
OF
THE
WORLD,
WHICH
ARISES
ANEW
WITH
A
NEW
GENERATION
OF
GODS.
THESE
STORIES
WERE
THE
MYTHOLOGY
OF
THE
VIKINGS,
BUT
THEY
WERE
NOT
WRITTEN
DOWN
UNTIL
LONG
AFTER
THE
CONVERSION
TO
CHRISTIANITY,
MOSTLY
IN
ICELAND.
IN
ADDITION
TO
A
BROAD
OVERVIEW
OF
NORDIC
MYTHS,
THE
BOOK
PRESENTS
A
CASE
STUDY
OF
ONE
MYTH,
WHICH
TELLS
OF
HOW
PORR
FISHED
UP
THE
WORLD
SERPENT,
ANALYZING
THE
MYTH
AS
A
SACRED
TEXT
OF
THE
VIKINGS.
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
ALSO
EXPLORES
THE
DEBT
WE
OWE
TO
MEDIEVAL
INTELLECTUALS,
WHO
WERE
ABLE
TO
INCORPORATE
THE
OLD
MYTHS
INTO
NEW
PARADIGMS
THAT
HELPED
THE
MYTHS
TO
SURVIVE
WHEN
THEY
WERE
NO
LONGER
PART
OF
A
RELIGIOUS
SYSTEM.
THIS
SUPERB
INTRODUCTION
ALSO
TRACES
THE
USE
OF
THE
MYTHOLOGY
IN
IDEOLOGICAL
CONTEXTS,
FROM
THE
VIKING
AGE
UNTIL
THE
TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY.
JOHN
LINDOW
IS
PROFESSOR
EMERITUS
IN
THE
DEPARTMENT
OF
SCANDINAVIAN
AT
THE
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
|
VII
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
|
XI
INTRODUCTION:
FROM
ORAL
TO
WRITTEN
MYTHOLOGY
|
1
1.
FROM
COSMOGONY
TO
COSMIC
ESCHATOLOGY:
THE
SYSTEM
OF
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
|
18
2.
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
AS
SACRED
NARRATIVE:
LORR
S
FISHING
EXPEDITION
|
65
3.
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
AND
LEARNED
MEDIEVAL
SPECULATION
|
103
4.
OLD
NORSE
MYTHOLOGY
AND
IDEOLOGY
(AND
ENTERTAINMENT)
|
133
CONCLUSION:
SACRED
NARRATIVE?
|
158
SUGGESTIONS
FOR
FURTHER
READINGS
|
167
RESOURCES
|
173
REFERENCES
|
21
1
INDEX
|
223 |
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| spelling | Lindow, John 1946- Verfasser (DE-588)1055077758 aut Old Norse mythology John Lindow New York Oxford University Press [2021] xi, 231 Seiten Illustrationen txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier World mythology in theory in everyday life Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction -- From Cosmogony to Cosmic Eschatology -- The System of Old Norse Mythology -- Old Norse Mythology as Sacred Narrative Þórr's fishing expedition -- Old Norse Mythology and Learned Medieval Speculation -- Old Norse Mythology and Ideology (and Entertainment) -- Conclusion "This book treats from the perspective of the series "World mythologies in theory and in everyday life" the body of texts from medieval Scandinavia, mostly Iceland, usually known as "Norse mythology" or "Scandinavian mythology." Specifically, it constitutes a case study of a "literary or textual mythology," that is, a mythology from the past that we know only through written texts that have been left to us, augmented in a few cases by artifacts and images. This case is particularly interesting because the texts (with a tiny handful of enigmatic exceptions) were recorded centuries after the Nordic peoples had abandoned the religion associated with the mythology and converted to Christianity. The mythology lived on without direct connection to ritual activity or religious conviction. Drawing both on sources from before the conversion and on comparative analysis, it is certainly possible to reach informed inferences about the mythology before the conversion to Christianity-that is, when it existed as part of the pre-Christian religion of the Nordic peoples and their successors. From the perspective of the mythologies of the world, what is perhaps most important about these inferences is that this pre-Christian mythology was not a canonical mythology, since it almost certainly lacked a canon of sacred texts such as one finds in the great world religions of today. The focus of the book is not the mythology in and of itself, as would be true of a handbook, but rather how particular historical and intellectual circumstances formed conceptions about it."-- Mythologie (DE-588)4041005-5 gnd rswk-swf Nordgermanen (DE-588)4075459-5 gnd rswk-swf Mythology, Norse Old Norse literature / History and criticism Icelandic literature / History and criticism Nordgermanen (DE-588)4075459-5 s Mythologie (DE-588)4041005-5 s DE-604 9780190852276 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB 9780190852276 SWB Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=032574581&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Klappentext SWB Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=032574581&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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