''The mythology of the Norse world has long been a source of fascination, from the first written texts of thirteenth-century Iceland up to the modern period. Most studies, however, have focused on the content of the narratives themselves, rather than the broader political contex…
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Old Norse myths as political ideologies: critical studies in the appropriation of medieval…
by Fiske Icelandic Collection, Universität Basel., Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Université de Lausanne., Institut religion, culture et modernité, Old Norse Myth and völkisch Ideology (Conference), Augst, Switzerland)
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"The mythology of the Norse world has long been a source of fascination, from the first written texts of thirteenth-century Iceland up to the modern period. Most studies, however, have focused on the content of the narratives themselves, rather than the broader political context…
The articles of this volume treat the expansion of the Nordic ideology in the first half of the twentieth century. They concentrate on the amalgamation of scientific, religious and political features, which transformed the idea of the North into a mainstay of extreme nationalism…
Consisting of more than 70 papers written by scholars concerned with pre-Christian Norse religion, the articles discuss subjects such as archaeology, art history, historical archaeology, history, history of ideas, theological history, literature, onomastics, Scandinavian languag…
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