This paper seeks evidence among our extensive Scandinavian mythological texts for an area which they seldom discuss explicitly: the conceptualisation and handling of illness and healing. Its core evidence is two runic texts (the Canterbury Rune-Charm and the Sigtuna Amulet) which conceptualise illness as a þurs (‘ogre, monster’). The article discusses the semantics of þurs, arguing that illness and supernatural beings could be conceptualised as identical in medieval Scandinavia. This provides a basis for arguing that myths in which gods and heroes fight monsters provided a paradigm for the struggle with illness. The article proceeds, more speculatively, to use the Eddaic poem Skírnismál and the Finnish Riiden synty as the basis for arguing ...
Poison and Disease in Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Metaphor bridges a gap between scholarship on medieva...
From the late-eighth through the early-twelfth centuries, the Germanic people of medieval Scandinavi...
International audienceWithout claiming to be exhaustive, this article compares the different aquatic...
This doctoral thesis examines the arts of healing in the area of present-day Sweden dur¬ing the Midd...
Background: This paper attempts to assess surgical knowledge presented in Norse mythology. The Prose...
The vivid presence of material objects in Scandinavian cosmology, as preserved in the Old Norse myth...
Using the lives of impaired individuals catalogued in the Íslendingasögur as a narrative framework, ...
Magical healers and physicians were among those who provided healing in the medical market of pre-mo...
This thesis aims to explore the various forms of healing magic; seiðr, galdr, and herbal medicine, o...
This thesis is concerned with uncovering the cultural and social conception of health and illness in...
The concept of miracle is not the same in each culture and its interpretation is strictly linked wit...
In the Old Norse literary world, many evil doers (witches, magicians, monsters, etc.) are killed by ...
ABSTRACT: The article carries out a comparative exercise focusing on the Norse myth about Þórr slaug...
Magical healers and physicians were among those who provided healing in the medical market of pre-mo...
The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been derided for t...
Poison and Disease in Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Metaphor bridges a gap between scholarship on medieva...
From the late-eighth through the early-twelfth centuries, the Germanic people of medieval Scandinavi...
International audienceWithout claiming to be exhaustive, this article compares the different aquatic...
This doctoral thesis examines the arts of healing in the area of present-day Sweden dur¬ing the Midd...
Background: This paper attempts to assess surgical knowledge presented in Norse mythology. The Prose...
The vivid presence of material objects in Scandinavian cosmology, as preserved in the Old Norse myth...
Using the lives of impaired individuals catalogued in the Íslendingasögur as a narrative framework, ...
Magical healers and physicians were among those who provided healing in the medical market of pre-mo...
This thesis aims to explore the various forms of healing magic; seiðr, galdr, and herbal medicine, o...
This thesis is concerned with uncovering the cultural and social conception of health and illness in...
The concept of miracle is not the same in each culture and its interpretation is strictly linked wit...
In the Old Norse literary world, many evil doers (witches, magicians, monsters, etc.) are killed by ...
ABSTRACT: The article carries out a comparative exercise focusing on the Norse myth about Þórr slaug...
Magical healers and physicians were among those who provided healing in the medical market of pre-mo...
The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been derided for t...
Poison and Disease in Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Metaphor bridges a gap between scholarship on medieva...
From the late-eighth through the early-twelfth centuries, the Germanic people of medieval Scandinavi...
International audienceWithout claiming to be exhaustive, this article compares the different aquatic...