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Author : Georges Dumézil
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1977-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520035070
Author : G. Dum?zil
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9785885107600
Author : Georges Dumézil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Germanic peoples
ISBN : OCLC:1264801912
Author : Rudolph Keyser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : OXFORD:600052706
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987618440
*Includes pictures *Includes medieval accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Much of what is known of the Norse myths comes from the 10th century onwards. Until this time and, indeed, for centuries afterwards, Norse culture (particularly that of Iceland, where the myths were eventually transcribed) was an oral culture. In fact, in all Scandinavian countries well into the thirteenth century laws were memorized by officials known as "Lawspeakers" who recited them at the "Thing." The Thing was the legislative assembly in Scandinavia "held for judicial purposes." One of the most famous of these Lawspeakers was the Icelander Snorri Sturluson, a masterful writer who wrote the Prose Edda in the thirteenth century. There are other sources for the Norse myths, namely the later "Poetic Edda," a collection of poems and prose work, and other sagas but the Snorri's Prose Edda is the most complete work whose attribution is known to modern scholars. The Prose Edda is a collection of Norse Myths split into three sections, the Gylfaginning (the Deluding of Gylfi), the Skáldskaparmál (the Language of Poetry) and the Háttatal (the Enumeration of Meters). The first has a frame story that entails a Swedish King, Gylfi, disguising himself as an old man, Gangleri, when he journeys to Asgard to meet the gods. When he arrives, he meets three men - "High One, Just-As-High, and Third" - who reveal to him stories of the world and the gods. The second section contains a warning for Christians not to believe in the Norse gods, specifically the two families, the Æsir and the Vanir, but also refutes the notion that they were demons, which was a common supposition among some Christians at the time. The Prose Edda begins in this line of thought with a euhemeristic prologue, which traces the history of the Norse Gods as human heroes of Troy, making Thor one of King Priam's sons. Thanks to recent modern Hollywood depictions of Heimdallr (by his Anglicized name Heimdall), played masterfully and enigmatically by the actor Idris Elba, this mysterious Norse god has once again emerged in pop culture. However, knowledge of his name has not brought with it many solutions to the problems of his character. The French philologist Georges Dumézil outlined the problems of Heimdallr excellently in his book Gods of the Ancient Northmen: "The god Heimdall poses one of the most difficult problems in Scandinavian mythography. As all who have dealt with him have emphasized, this is primarily because of a very fragmentary documentation; but even more because the few traits that have been saved from oblivion diverge in too many directions to be easily 'thought of together, ' or to be grouped as members of a unitary structure." Sadly, there is no known presence of any cult of Heimdallr that could help historians understand the practical role he played in Norse religion, though the myths surrounding him are many and varied. That being said, academics have not ceased to study Heimdallr because the enigmas surrounding him are precisely what make him so fascinating. In order to understand how this god, who was by no means a "lesser" deity in the Norse pantheon, could be so misunderstood today, it is worth analyzing the problems people still face when approaching the Norse "religion." Heimdallr: The Origins and History of the Norse God Who Keeps Watch for Ragnarök looks at the stories about the legendary Norse deity. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about Heimdallr like never before.
Author : RUDOLPH. KEYSER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033637068
Author : Rudolph Keyser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:862098999
Author : John Lindow
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195153828
Provides information on the gods, heroes, rituals, beliefs, symbols, and stories of Norse mythology.
Author : Robert E. Howard
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The pale bleak sun that glittered so blindingly from the ice-fields and the snow-covered plains struck sheens of silver from rent corselet and broken blade, where the dead lay in heaps. The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt: helmeted heads, back-drawn in the death throes, tilted red beards and golden beards grimly upward, as if in last invocation to Ymir the frost-giant.
Author : V.Rydberg,R.B. Anderson
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9785875112614
Teutonic Mythology: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland in three volumes, Volume 1 By Viktor Rydberg. Authorised translation from the Swedish by Rasmus Bj?rn Anderson, edited in chief. James William Buel
Author : Rebekah R. Ganiere
Publisher : Naughty Nights Press LLC
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773573991
What happens when Loki, God of Mischief, falls for the one woman immune to his charms? Val has spent the last hundred years doing two things, protecting Princess Sutrelle of Muspelheim from her father, and hating the Norse Gods who forced her and her Valkyrie sisters to fight in Ragnarök. And when she meets Loki, God of Mischief, at the Speed Dating event, the last thing she intends to do is fall for the man-whore, woman-using, Trickster God. But getting away from Loki isn’t as easy as she had hoped because despite him being irritating, vain, and stubborn, he’s also kind, understanding, and hotter than Hell itself. Val has a decision to make—let go of the past and embrace what could be a fantastic future with a sexy, rich playboy God, or settle for someone that the Fates didn’t have in mind for her and save her heart from the possibility of the heartbreak of a lifetime. Loki is book seventeen in the Speed Dating with the Denizens of the Underworld shared world, filled with angst, revenge, arrogant trickster Gods, strong-willed warrior women, and more.
Author : Christopher Abram
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847252470
An engaging account of the world of the Vikings and their gods.
Author : Rasmus Bjørn Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : PRNC:32101004003719
Velobinding with Card stock Covers, printed on Acid-Free paper.
Author : Rasmus Björn Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Mythology, Norse
ISBN : OSU:32435074353095
Author : Peter Andreas Munch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015003604686
This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.
