ABSTRACT: This article investigates two of three main ways outlined by Snorri Sturlusson in Gylfaginning in which Old Norse poets might refer to the earth in their poetry: By reference to the myth of the killing of Ymir as well as by reference to the immediate family of the goddess Jǫrð. By looking at the meaning of these references to the origins of the earth, the article investigates the underlying human ideas and reactions of these references. RESUME: Denne artikel undersøger to af tre hovedmåder skitseret af Snorri Sturlusson i Gylfaginning, hvorpå norrøne digtere kunne henvise til jorden i deres poesi: Gennem reference til myten om drabet på Ymir såvel som ved reference til gudinden Jǫrð’s nærmeste familie. Ved at se på betydningen af ...
This work attempts to outline concepts associated with body in the Old Norse literature. As the word...
This thesis has two aims. One is a discussion of the history of the study of Old Norse religion and ...
The essay has its beginning in the source material that deal with ancient Norse religion before the ...
In Old Norse mythology, gods like Freyja, Odin, and Thor are usually characterized as human-like cre...
In Old Norse mythology, gods like Freyja, Odin, and Thor are usually characterized as human-like cre...
The Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda serve as the primary texts from which we draw our modern understa...
The intention of this essay is to put the light on and to discuss if there is a connection between a...
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This work attempts to outline concepts associated with body in the Old Norse literature. As the word...
This thesis has two aims. One is a discussion of the history of the study of Old Norse religion and ...
The essay has its beginning in the source material that deal with ancient Norse religion before the ...
In Old Norse mythology, gods like Freyja, Odin, and Thor are usually characterized as human-like cre...
In Old Norse mythology, gods like Freyja, Odin, and Thor are usually characterized as human-like cre...
The Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda serve as the primary texts from which we draw our modern understa...
The intention of this essay is to put the light on and to discuss if there is a connection between a...
The paper discusses new formal analyses and semantic interpretations for two Old Norse names of the ...
Nordvig Mathias, Of Fire and Water : The Old Norse Mythical Worldview in an Eco-Mythological Perspec...
This thesis addresses the incorporation of mythological patterns, characters, and motifs in selected...
This thesis concerns bodies of traditional referentiality in Gylfaginning. While the presence of Ch...
Recent scholarship has indicated that the conception of the Old Norse god Þórr as a thunder god may ...
The War god Tyr and Tissø This article discusses the archeological site Tissø on western Zealand, De...
This research discussed the depiction of Norse mythology and personification in M.L. Kiser’s “Tree o...
In recent years, scholarship in early medieval studies and other allied fields has increasingly add...
This work attempts to outline concepts associated with body in the Old Norse literature. As the word...
This thesis has two aims. One is a discussion of the history of the study of Old Norse religion and ...
The essay has its beginning in the source material that deal with ancient Norse religion before the ...