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Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia - Retying the Bonds

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

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