Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia - Retying the Bonds

Informationen zum Autor Jonas Wellendorf is an assistant professor in the Department of Scandinavian at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of multiple articles in journals and peer-reviewed anthologies and has also co-edited anthologies and an edition of an Old Norse rhetorical treatise. Klappentext The coming of Christianity to Northern Europe resulted in profound cultural changes. In the course of a few generations, new answers were given to fundamental existential questions and older notions were invalidated. Jonas Wellendorf's study, the first monograph in English on this subject, explores the medieval Scandinavian reception and re-interpretation of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. This original work draws on a range of primary sources ranging from Prose Edda and Saxo Grammaticus' History of the Danes to less well known literary works including the Saga of Barlaam and the Hauksbók manuscript (c.1300). By providing an in-depth analysis of often overlooked mythological materials, along with translations of all textual passages, Wellendorf delivers an accessible work that sheds new light on the ways in which the old gods were integrated into the Christian worldview of medieval Scandinavia. Zusammenfassung The first monograph in English on the medieval Scandinavian reception and re-interpretation of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. Contextualizes the canonical Prose Edda by drawing on a range of less well known texts. Translations are provided of all quotations from medieval texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Retying the bonds; 2. The hierarchy of disbeliefs in antipagan polemics; 3. Universalist aspirations in Hauksbók; 4. The Byzantine Gods of Saxo Grammaticus; 5. Gods and humans in the Prose Edda; Epilogue: Óðinn and Odysseus.

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• Authors: Jonas Wellendorf, Jonas (University of California Wellendorf, Wellendorf Jonas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781108424974
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42497-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; European History, Medieval History, Norse religion & mythology, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Norse religion and mythology