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The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

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Wydawnictwo Oxbow Books
Data wydania 30/04/2019
Liczba stron 432
Forma publikacji książka w twardej oprawie
Poziom zaawansowania Dla profesjonalistów, specjalistów i badaczy naukowych
Język angielski
ISBN 9781842172605
Kategorie Historia Europy
204.75 PLN (z VAT)
$46.06 / €43.90 / £38.11 /
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Opis książki

Examines the evidence for Old Norse sorcery, its meaning, function, and practioners.

The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

Spis treści

List of figures and tables

Abbreviations

Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition

Preface and acknowledgements to the second edition

A note on language

A note on seid

1. Different Vikings? Towards a cognitive archaeology of the later Iron Age

A beginning at Birka

Textual archaeology and the Iron Age

The Other and the Odd?

An archaeology of the Viking mind?

2. Problems and paradigms in the study of Old Norse sorcery

Entering the mythology

Research perspectives on Scandinavian pre-Christian religion

Gods and monsters, worship and superstition

The shape of Old Norse religion

The double world: seidr and the problem of Old Norse 'magic'

Seidr in the sources

Seidr in research

3. Seidr

Odinn

Freyja and the magic of the Vanir

Seidr and Old Norse cosmology

The performers

The performance

Engendering seidr

Seidr and the concept of the soul

The domestic sphere of seidr

Seidr contextualised

4. Noaidevuohta

Seidr and the Sami

Sami-Norse relations in the Viking Age

Sami religion and the Drum-Time

Rydving's terminology of noaidevuohta

Women and noaidevuohta

The rituals of noaidevuohta

The ethnicity of religious context in Viking-Age Scandinavia

5. Circumpolar religion and the question of Old Norse shamanism

The circumpolar cultures and the invention of shamanism

The shamanic world-view

Shamanism in Scandinavia

Seidr and circumpolar shamanism

6. The supernatural empowerment of aggression

Seidr and the world of war

Valkyrjur, skaldmeyjar and hjalmvitr

Supernatural agency in battle

The projection of destruction

Battle magic

Seidr and the shifting of shape

Berserkir and ulfhednar

Ecstasy, psychic dislocation and the dynamics of mass violence

Weaving war, grinding battle: Darradarljod and Grottas ongr in context

7. The Viking way

A reality in stories

Viking women, Viking men

8. Magic and mind

Receptions and reactions

Cracks in the ice of Norse 'religion'

Walking into the seidr: contested interpretations of Viking-Age magic

Queering magic?

The social world of war

The Viking mind: a conclusion

References

Primary sources, including translations

Pre-nineteenth-century sources for the early Sami and Siberian cultures

Secondary sources

Sources in archive

Index

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